Viliam Figuš-Bystrý

Viliam Figuš-Bystrý (born February 28, 1875 in Banská Bystrica , † May 11, 1937 Banská Bystrica) was a Slovak composer.

Figuš-Bystrý attended grammar school from 1885 to 1889 and the teacher training institute in his hometown until 1893. He then worked as a teacher in Pilis (Hungary), Ostrá Lúka (until 1895), Zvolenská Slatina (until 1907) and in Padina in Yugoslavia (until 1906). From 1907 he lived again in his hometown as a teacher at a Protestant school. Between 1911 and 1914 he taught at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest .

Figuš-Bystrý was one of the founders of the Slovak Artists Association, of which he was chairman in 1925. He is the composer of the first Slovak national opera. In addition, he composed several orchestral works, chamber music, a cantata , piano and violin pieces and songs . He also edited a collection of over a thousand Slovak folk songs .

Works

• Tance for piano, 1893–1922
• Slovenské ľudové piesne I – V, 1903–36
• Z detského života , 1912-19
• Sonatína No. 1 in G major , 1913
• Sonatína No. 2 in C major , 1914
• Hudobné rozmary , 1914-33
• Sonatína No. 3 in D minor , 1915
• Scherzo , 1915
• Perličky , 1915–33
• Náladové obrazy , 1916
• Lístky do pamätníka for piano, 1916–22
• Pät skladieb pre husle a organ , 1916–26
• Klavírne kvarteto in E flat major , 1918
• Slovenský zborník , 1919–21
• Pestré lístky for piano, 1921–33
• Z mojej mladosti for symphony orchestra, 1921–34
• Sláčikové trio in G major , 1921–36
• Staré hodiny , dance scene, 1922
• Slávnostný pochod for piano, 1922
• Detvan Opera after Andrej Sládkovič , 1922–26
• Tisíc slovenských ludových piesní I – X, 1924–27
• Nemôžem byť tvojou , lyric scene, 1926
• Pochodové piesne , 1928-30
• 6 ofertórií , 1932
• Pršianska gajdová pieseň , 1932
• Yes som bača velmi starý ... , 1932
• Hudobné miniatúry for piano, 1932–33
• Dve Ave Maria 1933
• Polné kvietky , 1933
• Sonáta in E minor , 1934
• Pochodové slovenské ľudové piesne , 1934
• Ľudové balady , 1934
• Púchovské piesne , 1934
• Zbojnícke piesne , 1934–35
• Bačov žart , 1935
• Marta-Polka for symphony orchestra, 1936
• Šest skladieb pre organ , 1936–37
• Pod Poľanou , dance scene for tenor, choir and orchestra, 1937
• Mesiac rozpráva for symphony orchestra (instrumentation by Ján Cikker ), 1937
• Sláčikové trio in E minor , 1937