Glasbena matica

1873/1945

Narodna in univerzitetna knjižnica

By publishing "good Slovenian compositions for church, school and home”, the Cultural Society Glasbena Matica, founded in 1872, had fulfilled its objective to spread singing and to educate a huge number of amateur singers. It began publishing Slovenian songs and collecting folk songs, in 1882 it founded a music school, in 1891 a choir, and began its concert activity. The first Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra which functioned between 1908 and 1913, and the Orchestral Society, founded in 1919, fulfilled the wishes of the society members to establish a concert orchestra. By setting up the conservatory in 1919, Glasbena matica achieved its most important goal - to provide music education for professional musicians. By the end of the Second World War, almost Slovenian three hundred works of sheet music had been published by Glasbena Matica.  The works - collections of vocal compositions, arrangements of folk songs for men and mixed choirs, were intended mainly for amateur singing and performing musical works. In the years between the two world wars, several solo songs and piano compositions for youth were printed, as well as textbooks for piano, violin and singing.

Until the end of the World War II, Glasbena matica published almost 300 music scores of the Slovenian compositions for amateur singing and playing music. The cultural society, founded in 1872, fulfilled its goal to promote singing and educate masses of amateur singers" by publishing “good Slovenian compositions for church, school and home”. Most editions comprised collections of choral compositions, of which many were adaptations of folk songs for male and mixed choirs. Between the first and the second World War, several solo songs and piano pieces for youth, as well as textbooks for piano, violin and singing were printed. Among the editions, there is also a piano fragment from Foerster's opera Gorenjski slavček, and five guidebooks or textbooks.

19.12.2011