THE FOUNDERS OF SLOVAK NATIONAL MUSIC

Education

-1917-1923 High school-1921-1923 Music school in Bratislava-1927-1931 Academy of Music and Drama in

Bratislava-1931-1933 composition studies at the

Prague Conservatory

EUGEN SUCHOŇ

-Eugen Suchoň was a Slovak music composer, teacher and theoretician

- he set the basis of Slovak modern music - he is also the author of the first Slovak

opera - his work was influenced by Slovak folk

melodies

Work

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Piano work for children....Pictures from Slovakia

-it is made of 22 compositions arranged into six cycles....Maličká som, Keď sa vlci zišli, Preletel sokol and others

- this work of Eugen Suchoň is actual and classical at the same time

- it is one of the most important masterpieces of Slovak music culture

- He was one of the first Slovak composers who got on concert stages and opera scenes abroad

-he composed about100 musical works of which the operas Krútňava and Svätopluk achieved the highest recognition

Krútňava-1st Slovak national opera

The story of Krútňava is set in a small village in the mountains after the first world war.

It is a story of a young boy whose jealousness leads to a murder. This crime enables him to marry a girl he loves, but he is haunted by remorses which eventually makes him to admit his guilt.

The story of the opera

Listen...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7D8fSQdVHk

Krútňava – performed by the State Opera SND

-one of the leading representatives of the Slovak musical modernism- he significantly influenced the development of musical drama of the 20th century. - he was a Slovak music composer and

teacher- he composed mainly operas

JÁN CIKKER

- He gained the basics of musical education from his mother Mária Psotková

- 1921 – 1929 High school in Banská Bystrica- 1930 – 1935 Prague Conservatory in Prague- 1936– 1937 University of Music and Performig

Arts in Vienna-1936 – 1939 composition studies in Prague-1939– 1951 professor of Music Theory on State

Conservatory-1945 –1948 dramaturge of opera at SND

-1951 – 1973 professor of composition at VŠMU in Bratislava

Education

His most famous operas:

Juro Jánošík Beg Bajazid The Game about love and death Resurrection......

WORK

-Cikker was writing this opera from1950 to 1953, its premiere was in SND (Slovak National Theatre) the next year.

- The librettist of Juro Jánošík was Štefan Hoza, who made the libretto on the basis of credible historical sources about the most famous Slovakian outlaw Juraj Jánošík.

-He sets out from folk traditions capturing the image of former life.

- The libretto gives a big space to dance scenes which introduce the life of outlaws and also the life of aristocracy.

Juro Jánošík

-Juraj Jánošík is divided into 6 images which capture the period from the day when Jánošík joined the group of outlaws untill his execution in 1713.

-the story of the opera: Juraj becomes the captain of the outlaws after Uhorčík, he leaves his dear Milka and leads a life of an outlaw until he is arrested and sentenced.

More pictures from the opera

-Slovak national music originates in the19th century when Slovakia did not have favorable conditions for the development of its own music.

-Slovak folk songs inspired Slovak national music and they became the most important part of Slovak music.

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