Slovenian Philharmonic Building
Concert hall of a centuries-old music society, built on the site of a theatre lost to fire.
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This guide to the Slovenian Philharmonic Building in Ljubljana follows the city's Philharmonic Society in the spring of eighteen nineteen, when its members decided they wanted Ludwig van Beethoven on their roll of honour and went to unusual lengths to ask. It touches on the go-between who carried their diploma to Vienna and the famous names the Society gathered over the years. Best heard on Congress Square, facing the building's front.
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