Music School Kosta Manojlović, Zemun
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The Music School Kosta Manojlovic is one of the largest schools in Serbia. It is located at 9 Nemanjina street in Zemun.[1][2] Students and professors of this school have achieved outstanding successes[3] at many competitions in Serbia and abroad. These places the school at the very top of the music education in Serbia.
The school started its work on 1 September 1939, as a separate department of the Music School “Stanković” in Belgrade, in a three-room apartment in Svetosavska Street. In 1949 the school received the status of a regular six-year, gratuitous schools, and since 1954 bears the name of Kosta Manojlović.,[4] the famous Serbian composer, musicologist, founder and first rector of the Faculty of Music [5] in Belgrade.
The School Day is celebrated on December 4. It is the day of birth of Kosta Manojlovic.
Teaching classes are organized in three separate locations – the main (parent) school, in the class for visually impaired children “Veljko Ramadanović” and elementary school “Lazar Savatić”. With around a thousand students and 145 teachers and non-teaching staff, the school is one of the largest in Serbia. Today, there are seven courses established in the school: the piano, string instruments, wind instruments, solo singing, the accordion, the guitar and a course for music production and audio recording. Around 3,000 students have completed elementary education and around 650 students secondary education so far.