“Even Amidst the Clash of Conflict, the Sweet Sounds of the Muses did not Fade Away Completely”: The Concert Life of the Philharmonic Society in Ljubljana in the Period of its Last Music Director Hans Gerstner

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present, using the example of the concert life of the Philharmonic Society in Ljubljana, the central institution for the reproduction of music in Slovenia, the relation between artistic and extramusical significance in the period of four war concert seasons, i.e., from 1914 to 1918.