Jan Cikker: Symfonia “1945” – Symphony No. 3 (1975)
Slovenska Filharmonia, Zdenek Kosler, conductor
Ján Cikker (29 July 1911 – 21 December 1989) was a Slovak composer, a leading exponent of modern Slovak classical music. He was awarded the title National Artist in Slovakia, the Herder Prize (1966) and the IMC-UNESCO International Music Prize (1979).
Cikker was born in former Austria-Hungary, today Slovakia, in Banská Bystrica. His first music teachers were his mother, Mária Psotková, and Viliam Figuš-Bystrý. After he graduated from the high school, he studied at the Prague Conservatory from 1930 to 1935, where he attended courses of composition of Jaroslav Křička, of conducting and organ. He then studied at the Master’s School of the Prague Conservatory from 1935 to 1936, where he was a student of Vítězslav Novák. Later on, he moved to Vienna, where he studied with Felix Weingartner from 1936-1937.
From 1939 to 1949, he taught at the Bratislava Conservatory. At the same time he was a repertory advisor of the opera of the Slovak National Theatre from 1945 to 1948. He was forced to leave this post after the communist takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1948. Finally, he worked as professor for composition at the Bratislava Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (VŠMÚ), where he was the teacher of many Slovak composers. He died in Bratislava, where a museum in his name has opened. He composed three symphonies (1930, 1937, 1975). (Ref: Wikipedia)
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Memorial to the murdered children of Lidice.
Štefan Tamáš – Prechádzka mestom (1940)
Štefan Tamáš – Pred domom I. (1938)
Štefan Tamáš – Na trhu I.(1936-1938)
Štefan Tamáš – Pri kostole (1940)
Štefan Tamáš – Penzisti (1937)
Štefan Tamáš – Jesen v starom meste I. (1943)
Štefan Tamáš – Jesenné poobedie (1940)
Štefan Tamáš – Kamarátky (1940)
Štefan Tamáš – Na okraji cesty (1940)
Štefan Tamáš – Starý cigán) 1940)
Štefan Tamáš – Únava (1943)
Štefan Tamáš – Pohad na cintorín (1940)
Tibor Honty – 9. máj 1945 II.
Tibor Honty – 9. máj 1945 I.
Tibor Honty – 9. máj 1945 III.
Štefan Tamáš – Opustená (1946)