Srbští studenti na pražské konzervatoři v období 1918–1938

Following the World War I and the formation of the Czechoslovak state in 1918, Prague, with its liberal, cosmopolitan atmosphere and cultural riches, opened its institutions to cultural and educational needs of newly created or reformed states. Dozens of students of music, chiefly from the Slavic countries, flocked to the Prague musical conservatory (founded 1811). About 120 of them came from Yugoslavia, out of which number approximately 40 were of Serbian origin or worked in Serbia for a long period of time. For this article, the authors of the study compiled their list on the basis of the archival research, as well as focused on the study of several students of composition that became, after their return to their home country, the leading representatives of the Yugoslavian music. The study also tackles the context of musical life in Prague in the interwar period.