Immediately after World War II Karel Hladky (1914 -1962) started to play professionally and compose for the guitar, as well as to carry on with very attive pedagogie work. One of the oldest known classic al guitar piece made in that period is for sure Hladky’s composition “Bells of Gonars.” The music was composed in 1942 during the time Hladky spent in a concentration camp in Gonars in Italy. Being lucky enough to survive this tragic period, soon after, in 1944, he published his first Guitar School, in Ljubljana, which is at the same time the first Slovenian didactic method officially presented after the war. Hladky was also a very interesting guitar figure in Slovenia. As a grown man, he attended the Music Academy and in 1952 graduated in composition. With a great talent for music he was a fine, mostly self-taught, guitarist, with a good technique, and managed to assemble even before the war a large group of guitar enthusiasts and lovers around him. Among them was Joze Tursic and Stane Kranjc. (Uros Dojcinovic: Guitar Compositions from Yugoslavia. Vol.III Slovenia, 2003)