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Viliam Figuš-Bystrý (born Viliam Figuš) (28 February 1875 – 11 May 1937) was a Slovak composer, teacher and author of the first Slovak national opera '' Detvan''.
Viliam Figuš was born in
Biography and list of works at osobnosti.sk
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Figus-Bystry, Viliam 1875 births 1937 deaths Musicians from Banská Bystrica Slovak composers Slovak male composers Czechoslovak classical composers Slovak male classical composers 20th-century male musicians Slovak male musicians
Viliam Figuš-Bystrý (born Viliam Figuš) (28 February 1875 – 11 May 1937) was a Slovak composer, teacher and author of the first Slovak national opera '' Detvan''.
Viliam Figuš was born in Banská Bystrica
Banská Bystrica (, also known by other #Etymology, alternative names) is a city in central Slovakia, located on the Hron River in a long and wide valley encircled by the mountain chains of the Low Tatras, the Greater Fatra, Veľká Fatra, and t ...
. He attended gymnasium from 1885 to 1889 and teacher's institute in Banská Štiavnica from 1889 to 1893. After graduating, he worked as a teacher in Pilis
Pilis () is a town in Pest County, Hungary.
History
The town was inhabited in Prehistory, prehistoric times, but was abandoned at the end of the Pannonia, Roman rule. Pilis was then first mentioned in 1326. It was destroyed during Ottoman Hungar ...
, Ostrá Lúka, Zvolenská Slatina, Padina. In 1907, he settled in Banská Bystrica, where he taught at Lutheran school. From 1911 to 1914, he studied under Zoltán Kodály
Zoltán Kodály (, ; , ; 16 December 1882 – 6 March 1967) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, music pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher. He is well known internationally as the creator of the Kodály method of music education.
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at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music.
While teaching in various towns, he collected folksongs and published their adaptations in a few collections (''Slovenské ľudové piesne z Veľkej Slatiny'', ''1000 slovenských ľudových piesní'', ''Púchovské piesne'', ''Zbojnícke piesne''). Also in his compositions, he was inspired by folksongs from central Slovakia and in youth also from Hungary. Besides arranging folksongs, he composed orchestral works, chamber music, cantata, piano and violin pieces and songs. In 1926, he finished his opera ''Detvan'', Op. 64, the first Slovak national opera, based on poem '' Detvan'' by Andrej Sládkovič.
Figuš-Bystrý was an important part of musical life in Banská Bystrica. He was one of the founding members of the Association of the Slovak Artists, being its chairman in 1925.
He died in Banská Bystrica.
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Biography and list of works at osobnosti.sk
Slovak
Wikipedia article
Biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Figus-Bystry, Viliam 1875 births 1937 deaths Musicians from Banská Bystrica Slovak composers Slovak male composers Czechoslovak classical composers Slovak male classical composers 20th-century male musicians Slovak male musicians