Abstract:
The professional foundations for the development of Slovak music-historical research, especially for heuristics and for the protection of extant music-historical sources, were laid over a hundred years ago. The process began at the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University, where a Seminar for Musicology, headed by the Czech theologian and musicologist Dobroslav Orel, was established in the academic year of 1921/1922. Thanks to him, a music documentation station was also established at this seminar. By time, however, its competences changed and, in the 1950s, the task to collect, store, catalogue, and scientifically process the extant music-historical sources was taken over first by the Institute of Musicology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and then, in 1965, by the Slovak National Museum, the Music Department of the Institute of History, today the Music Museum of the Slovak National Museum. The permanent collaboration of these three state institutions in Bratislava in the field of music-historical research ever since their establishment, and their current interdisciplinary and international interconnectedness, are of a high scientific standard.