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Ján Zimmer (16 May 1926 – 21 January 1993) was a Slovak post-romantic composer and pianist.


Biography


Ján Zimmer was born in Ružomberok, North Slovakia. He studied at the Bratislava Conservatory between 1941 and 1948 with Anna Kafendová [sk] (piano), Józef Weber (organ) and Eugen Suchoň (composition). Afterwards he studied composition with Ferenc Farkas at the Budapest Music Academy, and in Salzburg in 1949. From 1948 to 1952 he taught music theory and piano at the Bratislava Conservatory. He also worked for the Czechoslovak Radio. From 1952 he devoted his time exclusively to composition and performance as a concert pianist (he performed in particular the piano part of his own piano concertos). His works, in the post-romantic style, are overall expressionistic and occasionally incorporate Slovakian folk music. Some of his works, such as the cantata The Uprising (1954), the powerful symphonic poem Strečno (1958), and the vocal symphonic poem Liberation (1975) are written in a nationalist spirit. Ján Zimmer composed more than 120 works, including especially two operas (1963 and 1977), twelve symphonies (from 1955 to 1985), seven piano concertos (from 1949 to 1985), many other concertos for various instruments, chamber music, songs, choral works (including a Magnificat, 1951), and numerous pieces for piano solo. He died in 1993 in Bratislava, at age 66.


Works


The following lists show all his compositions in the genres opera, symphony, and works for piano and orchestra. They show selected works in the other genres.


Opera



Symphony



Orchestra



Piano and orchestra



Other instruments and orchestra



Vocal and choral



Chamber music and solo instruments



Piano solo and Two pianos



References


  1. The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Don Michael Randel. 1996. p. 1010. ISBN 9780674372993.

Sources



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[de] Ján Zimmer

Ján Zimmer (* 16. Mai 1926 in Ružomberok; † 21. Januar 1993 in Bratislava) war ein slowakischer Komponist und Pianist.
- [en] Ján Zimmer



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