[1] He entered the music scene in the 1930s, as a composer of the "Prague Group",[2] a student of Alojz Haba and follower of his radical modernism.
From 1949 he was a member of the expert council ensemble "Kolo"[5] He has participated in the work of the Association of Composers of Serbia since its founding, edited and published the first catalog of members of the association.
After that, he was educated in Prague (1929-1932), in the class of Jaroslav Križička, Karl Boleslav Jirak and Aljoz Haba, at the State Conservatory, as well as in the class of Jozef Suk at the Master School.
During his studies, he was considered the most devoted follower of the Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg.
He collaborated with magazines: Muzički glasnik (1932), Zvuk (1932—1933), Pravda (1933—1935), Srpski književni glasnik (1937), Slavenska muzika (1939—1940), Život i rad (1938), Vreme (1939), and after World War II and with the daily Borba.