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A rectangular plaque made from polished tonalite with an inscription was attached to the composer’s birthplace (Sexton’s House) by the Society of Slovenian Composers in 1972. Stanko Vurnik Ethnologist and art historian Stanko Vurnik (1898–1932) was also an influential authority on musicology, music criticism and historiography. While studying art history with his role model, Professor

The original commemorative plaque attached to the former girls’ school in 1933 was destroyed during World War II. In 1973, a new one was put up on the façade of the Community Centre in the town centre of Ribnica.

Since 2016, the renovated village centre at Šentviška Gora has been adorned by a stone bust of the Renaissance composer Jacobus Handl Gallus, carved by self-taught sculptor Evgen Feltrin and erected by the Šentviška planota Tourist Association. Apart from Idrija and Ribnica, Šentviška Gora is one of Gallus’ three presumed birthplaces. On the basis of archival sources and other testimonies to the composer’s presence in Slovenia, this monument erected in his memory honours this great composer in the Slovenian Littoral.

Placed on a rectangular-shaped column, the bust of Jacobus Handl Gallus stands in the Ribnica Park of Cultural Workers as material confirmation of one of the numerous theories about the birthplace of this great Renaissance artist. (Apart from Ribnica, Slovenian folk tradition also claims his other two birthplaces to be at Idrija and Šentviška Gora.) The park was built in 1982 on the initiative and under the patronage of the Ribnica Tourist Association. The bust was made by sculptor Stane Jarm.

A memorial plaque dedicated to Emil Adamič is attached to the facade of 16 Staretova Street in the Ljubljana district of Trnovo, the house where the composer lived and worked during the final years of his life. The inscription on the plaque reads, “The Slovenian composer Emil Adamič, 1877–1936, worked in this house between 1931–1936.”