Ján Cikker

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Memorial plaque on Cikker's birthplace in Banská Bystrica

Ján Cikker (born July 29, 1911 in Banská Bystrica , † December 21, 1989 in Bratislava ) was a Slovak composer.

Life

Cikker studied in Prague with Jaroslav Křička and Vítězslav Novák and in Vienna with Felix von Weingartner . From 1939 to 1949 he taught theory and composition at the Conservatory and since 1951 composition at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava . In 1978 he became a corresponding member of the Academy of Arts of the German Democratic Republic .

He composed several operas and ballets , a symphony , symphonic poems and other orchestral pieces, chamber music works, piano pieces, songs and folk song arrangements .

After his death, his widow Katarína Cikkerova founded the Ján Cikker Foundation , which in 2004 set up the Ján Cikker Museum in the composer's former home in Bratislava, a building designed by architects Eugen Kramár and Štefan Lukacovic .

Works

  • Cantus filiorum , cantata
  • Symfonický prologue , 1934
  • Capriccio pre orchestra , 1936
  • O mamičke , song cycle, 1940
  • Concertino pre klavir a orchestra , 1942
  • Slovenská suita , 1943
  • Vojak a matka , symphonic poem, 1943
  • Selanka ( Idylle ), ballet music, 1944
  • Ráno , symphonic poem, 1946
  • Spomienky for orchestra, 1947
  • Juro Jánošik , opera, 1950–1953
  • Beg Bajazid ( Prince Bajazid after Ján Smrek ), opera, 1955–1956
  • Dramaticka fantazia pre symfonický orchestra , 1957
  • Mister Scrooge (based on Charles Dickens ' A Christmas Carol ), opera, 1958–1959
  • Vzkriesenie ( Resurrection after Lev Tolstoy Vozkresenie ), Opera, 1959–1961
  • Meditácia podľa témy H.Schutza , 1964
  • Hra o láske a smrti ( The Game of Love and Death according to Romain Rolland ), opera, 1966–1968
  • Meteor (by Ján Cikker and Peter Karvaš ), opera, 1966, unfinished
  • Coriolanus (based on William Shakespeare ), opera, 1970–1972
  • Epitaf (o starom hrobe) , Overture, 1973
  • Symfonia 1945 , 1974
  • Rozsudok ( The verdict after Heinrich von Kleist's The Earthquake in Chili ), Opera, 1976–1978
  • Obliehanie Bystrice ( The Siege of Bystrica according to Kálmán Mikszáth ), Opera, 1979–1981
  • Zo života hmyzu ( From the life of insects ; after Karel and Josef Čapek ), opera, 1983–1986
  • Antigóna (after Sophocles ), Opera, 1987–1989

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personal data
SURNAME Cikker, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Banská Bystrica
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1989
Place of death Bratislava