DOBROSLAV OREL A SLOVENSKÁ HUDOBNÁ HISTORIOGRAFIA (ČESKO-SLOVENSKÝ KONTEXT)

The musicological work of Dobroslav Orel (1870–1942) covers a wide range of activities in the field of musical historiography. He is closely linked to the establishment of the Musicological Seminar at the Philosophical Faculty of the Comenius University in Bratislava (1921); he also established a research centre for heuristic research of musical sources preserved in Slovakia. The work of Professor Orel is described and reflected on by his disciples – Konštantín Hudec, Antonín Hořejš, Zdenka Bokesová-Hanáková, as well as by the later generation of Slovakian musicologists – Jozef Kresánek, Ladislav Burlas, Richard Rybarič, Ladislav Mokrý and others. The goal of this contribution is to provide an outline of his research into the ancient history of music as reflected in the works of Slovakian musicologists, as well as assessing his methodological points of departure from the perspective of the present state of musicology.