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COMPOSITIONS FOR GUITAR BY SLOVAK COMPOSERS

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​​​Welcome to a website dedicated to Slovak music for guitar, which serves as the outcome of a research project bearing the same name. It aims to provide a scholarly yet holistic view of compositional works by Slovak composers written for — and involving — the guitar.

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The project seeks to map the quality, diversity, and developmental continuity of Slovak guitar music. Works for guitar by Slovak authors represent an artistically valuable and aesthetically diverse contribution to both the national and international musical landscape.​ Today, Slovak composed music for guitar reflects — to a significant extent — both stylistic and compositional-technical heterogeneity in approaches to musical material within Slovak composition as a whole.

 

Slovak guitar music offers remarkable stylistic and technical variety. Within this body of work, we can observe diverse compositional approaches to musical substance, mirroring broader tendencies in the evolution of Slovak music — for instance, the integration of progressive compositional techniques. In certain cases — such as with Jozef Kolkovič, Marián Budoš, and Jana Kmiťová — the guitar is a consistent presence throughout their entire compositional development. This continuity allows us to trace not only changing aesthetic preferences, but also the evolution of their musical thinking itself.

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The project was made possible thanks to the financial support of the Slovak Art Council, which is also its main partner.

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As part of the project,

a scholarly study was published (in three parts) in the musicological journal Slovenská hudba.

Compositions of Slovak composers for the guitar, the work of Mr. Ondrej Veselý, is an exceptional and highly valuable contribution that opens up new horizons in the world of Slovak music. It is a work that fully deserves recognition and broad dissemination so that its significance may reach the widest possible audience.”

Prof. Jozef Zsapka – Profesor emeritus

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As of March 2024, the following amount of music compositions was created for the guitar (and with the guitar)

AROUND 360

Various compositions from over

80 composers

16

CONCERTOS for guitar & orchestra

(including other pieces with orchestra)

up to 70

SOLO pieces for guitar

18

Elementary pieces

anthology

ANTOLÓGIA / ANTHOLOGY

Click on the composer's name

to find more information

B

Bachratá Petra

Bázlik Miro

Bernáth Ľuboš

Bizoň Pavol

Boroš Tomáš

Breiner Peter

Burlas Ivan

Bázlik Igor

Beneš Juraj

Betko Miloš

Bokes Vladimír

Borzík Lukáš

Buffa Ivan

Burlas Martin

C

 ČEkovská Ľubica

                           

Cotteli Honorát

d

Demoč Adrián

Döme Alexander

Dibák Igor

Duchnický Peter

f

Fekiačová Skruteková Zdenka

Filas Juraj

g

Gahér Jozef

Gräffinger Viliam

Godár Vladimír

Groll Peter

h

Hatrík Juraj

Hvozdík Samuel

Hochel Stanislav

Hvozdíková Tímea

i

Iršai Jevgenij

j

Janárčeková Viera

Javorka Peter

k

Kmiťová Jana

Kolkovič Jozef

Konečný jAROSLAV

Kořínek Miloslav

Krák Egon

Kroupová OĽga

Kubička Víťazoslav

Kojš Juraj

KoneČnÝ iVAN

Kopcsay Dominik

Kowalski Július

Králik Ján

Krška Pavol

Kupkovič Ladislav

l

Laco Jakub

Lejava Marián

m

Machajdík Peter

Malovec PAVOL

Martinček van Grob Peter

Mikula Zdenko

Moyzes Alexander

Malovec Jozef

Martinček Dušan

Matej Daniel

Milaković Boško

n

Novák Milan

Novosedlíková Lenka

p

Papanetzová Lucia

Pepucha Rudolf

Pospíšil Juraj

Parík Ivan

Piaček Marek

r

Remeň Daniel

REMENíK PETER

s

sALVA tADEáš

Šimon Martin

Szeghy Iris

Šarišský Vladislav

Stanček Ladislav

t

tANDLER jURAJ

v

vAJÓ jURAJ

vESELý oNDREJ

z

zAGAR pETER

zELJENKA iLJA

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