We cordially invite you to the lecture from the cycle Dialogo della musica, which will be given by Stanislav Tuksar (Zagreb) on the topic of Institutionalization of Modern Music Culture in the 19th-Century Civil Croatia and Military Frontier.
The lecture will take place on Tuesday, November 18, 2025 at 5 pm in the Musicological library IAH, Puškinovo nám. 9, Prague 6.
Recent field research in Croatian historical musicology has identified, documented, classified and basically analysed various kinds of music institutions (Musikvereins, singing and mixed societies, instrumental ensembles, music theatres), established in Civil Croatia and its adjacent Military Frontier during the long 19th century. This research has shown that in the period under consideration the emergence and spread of music institutions assumed almost spectacular dimensions: their number grew in less than a century from only seven in 1819 to almost 300 in the year 1914. Also, the number of towns, townships and settlements with organized music institutions grew from five in 1819 to 102 in 1914. Various models of private and public initiatives, as well as their transformation into social and/or state institutions, have been established as fundaments of modern bourgeois culture both in music and in society at large. A special case study will be presented of the town of Osijek, the capital of Slavonia, with its 39 music institutions identified so far.
Stanislav Tuksar is Professor emeritus of the University of Zagreb, where he taught historical musicology and aesthetics of music from 1979 until 2020. He had also lectured at 25 academic institutions and participated at more than 160 scholarly meetings, both worldwide. He holds degrees in Philosophy, English and cello, and MA and PhD in musicology. He has published as author, translator and editor 30 books and more than 270 articles, and he is since 2000 Editor-in-Chief of the International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music. Since 2012 he has been fellow of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.