From great expectations to great disappointments: Petar Krstic’s contribution to the process of reforms of music education in interwar Yugoslavia (1918-1921)

Abstract

This paper deals with the activities of Petar Krstic in the domain of music education in the first years after the First World War and the constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. As a long-serving director of the Serbian Music School, Krstic initiated various processes in order to modernize it and transform it into institution of higher level of music education. For that purpose he focused on the school?s internal reorganization and ?etatization?. As a result, Krstic prepared new school regulations and several draft s of legal texts and started negotiations with the authorities. Krstic?s ideas, plans and his undertakings concerning the reforms during the rule over the Serbian Music School/Music School in Belgrade will be discussed in detail together with their historical value.