Aleš NAGODE graduated, completed his master’s degree and received his PhD at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. In 1993, he started working as a fellow researcher at the Institute of Musicology at the Scientific Research Centre of SASA. Since 1995 has been working at the Department of Musicology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. The focus of his research work is music history of Slovenes and the antiquity, church music in Slovenia in the second half of the 18th and 19th centuries and the question of ethnogenesis of Slovene music life in late 18th and 19th centuries.