Musical Performance Activities of Josef Zöhrer at the Ljubljana Philharmonic Society

Abstract

The article examines the musical performance activities of the pianist, teacher, conductor and music director Josef Zöhrer (1841–1916), one of the central figures of Ljubljana’s musical life in the second half of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century, at the Ljubljana Philharmonic Society. Over the course of almost half a century of performing and teaching Zöhrer had an enormous impact on musical culture in present-day Slovenia.