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Sobrescrito de 1.º Dia
SlovakiaJán Cikker (1911 - 1989)
Date of Issue : 29 July 2011
Music composer Ján Cikker (29th July 1911 Banská Bystrica – 21st Dec 1989 Bratislava) studied composing, conducting and organ playing at the Prague Conservatory from 1930 to 1936 and musicology at the Charles University at the same time, later (1936 – 1937) at the Music Academy in Vienna.
From 1938 to 1951 Cikker worked in Bratislava as a teacher of music theory and during the years 1945 to 1948 he also worked as an editor of the Opera of the Slovak National Theatre. Beginning in 1951 he taught composing at the Academy of Performing Arts which was established shortly before (1949). Its graduates have included several prominent Slovak composers such as I. Zeljenka, M. Bázlik and others.
The most important of Cikker’s opuses include the operas Juro Jánošík (Bratislava 1954), Beg Bajazid (Bratislava 1957), Resurrection (Praha 1962), Mr. Scrooge (Staatstheater Kassel 1963), Play of Love and Death (Nationaltheater Munich 1969) and Coriolanus (Prague 1974). Throughout his life Ján Cikker won several awards such as the Slovak National Prize (1945), Merited Artist (1961), National Artist (1966), Herder Prize (Vienna 1966), Madách Prize (Budapest 1966), UNESCO Prize for music (1977) etc.
Ján Cikker belongs to the most significant Slovak composers of the 20th century and foremost in Slovak musical modernism.
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