Dezider Kardos(1914-1991)
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Dezider Kardos (23.12.1914 - 18.3.1991), was Slovak composer, one of
the main representatives of modern Slovak classical music. He was
awarded the title National Artist in 1975, in 2006 was matriculated
into the Gold Book of the Slovak Performing and Mechanical Rights
Society (SOZA). After finishing the high school (1933), he studied at
the Music and Drama Academy where he attended courses of composition of
Alexander Moyzes and at the same time attended the lectures in
musicology, aesthetics and arts history at the Faculty of Arts of the
Comenius University. Kardos graduated in 1937 and resumed his studies
Master's School of the Prague Conservatory up to 1939, where he was a
student of Vitezslav Novak. From 1939 to 1945 he was head of the Slovak
Radio Music Department in Presov, from 1945 to 1951 head of the
Czechoslovak Radio Music Department in Kosice and since 1951 in
Bratislava. In 1952 he became the first director of the Slovak
Philharmonic. In the years 1955 - 1963 he was the president of the
Slovak Composers Union. Kardos was also a successful tutor of
composition, from 1961 to 1984 he taught at the Academy of Performing
Arts in Bratislava (since 1968 as professor of composition). He was the
founder of modern symphonic. He was one of the most important composers
of the 20th century, forming the foundation of the Slovak music
culture. It has its place in the forefront of modern Slovak symphonic.
The original production, which encompass almost all music genres, based
on two sources of inspiration - from the Slovak national music and
modern world. For his work, he was in 1975 awarded the title of
National Artist.