Transcript slovak-national-musicx

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 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
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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
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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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7D8fSQ
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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
- 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
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His most famous operas:
Juro Jánošík
Beg Bajazid
The Game about love and death
Resurrection......
-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.
-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.
-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.