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Chapters: Jozef Murgaš, Jozef Tomko, Bystrík, Alexander Rudnay, Ján Levoslav Bella, Ján Sokol, Zdenka Cecília Schelingová, Stanislav Zvolenský, Alojz Tkáč. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 38. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jozef Murga (English Joseph Murgas) (17 February 1864 11 May 1929) was a Slovak inventor, architect, botanist, painter, patriot, and Roman Catholic priest. He contributed to wireless telegraphy and help develop mobile communications and wireless transmission of information and human voice. Murga was nicknamed the Radio Priest and deemed a Renaissance man. Murga was born in Tajó, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire (now Slovakia). He studied theology in Pozsony (Bratislava) (188082), Esztergom (188284), and in Besztercebánya, where he graduated in 1888. From his youth he was bright, skillful and good at painting and electrotechnology: The vice-head of the school in Esztergom allowed him to use the physics room for experiments, and the Slovak painters B. Klemens and Dominik Skutecký noticed his talent for painting. After priestly ordination in 1888, Murga worked as a curate. On Skutecký's initiative, Murga was accepted at a painting school in Budapest, where he studied from 1889-90. He also studied painting in Munich from 1890-93. He attended both schools while working. He painted sacral pieces and Slovak landscapes and Slovak personalities. It was due to his strong patriotism he exhibited during holidays in the 1890s that he was not allowed to finish his painting studies and had to work as a curate in changing places in the Kingdom of Hungary: in Nyitratormás, Zólyomlipcse, Cseres and in Lopér. In Lopér, he painted a large sacral picture of St. George, which is still on the church altar of the village. Due to permanent conflicts with the bishop's secretary, Mu...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2391157 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Ján Levoslav Bella (4 September 1843, Liptószentmiklós, Kingdom of Hungary (today Liptovský Mikulá, Slovakia) 25 May 1936, Bratislava) was a Slovak composer, conductor and music teacher, who wrote in the spirit of the Nationalist Romantic movement of the 19th century. Bella was raised in a Roman Catholic family. He studied at the college in Lcse, (today Levoa) and a seminary in Besztercebánya, (today Banská Bystrica) before taking a degree at Vienna University. Bella was ordained a priest in 1866. From 1869 to 1881 he was town director of music at Körmöcbánya (today Kremnica). He left the priesthood in 1881 and converted to Protestantism, becoming director of music in Hermannstadt/Nagyszeben, now Sibiu in modern Romania, (at that time Kingdom of Hungary) where he remained until 1921. From 1921 to 1928 he lived in retirement in Vienna, moving to Bratislava in 1928, where he died in 1936. Bella began to compose whilst studying in Levoa. At this time his output was largely small-scale, such as church music, folk-song arrangements and some chamber music. In 1873 however, visiting Vienna and Prague, he heard for the first time the music of, amongst others, Robert Schumann, Richard Wagner and Bedich Smetana. This encounter with romantic music had a profound effect, of which the first result was Bella's 1874 symphonic poem Osud a ideál (Fate and the Ideal), which premiered in Prague in 1876. In his day Bella was respected both as a composer and conductor by such important musical figures as Antonín Dvoák, Johannes Brahms, Hans von Bülow, Joseph Joachim and Ernst von Dohnányi. Bella wrote in many different forms, including songs, church music, organ music, chamber music and orchestral music. His operas include Wieland der Schmied ("... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5071340 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The music of Slovakia has been influenced both by thecounty's native Slovak peoples and the music ofneighbouring regions. Whilst there are traces of pre- historic musical instruments, the country has a richheritage of folk music and mediaeval liturgical music, andfrom the 18th century onwards, in particular, musical lifewas influenced by that of Austria-Hungary. In the 19thcentury composers such as Jan Levoslav Bella began to writeromantic music with a Slovak character. In the twentiethcentury there were a number of composers who identifiedwith Slovak culture. After the fall of communism in 1989-90the country also began to develop its own popular musicscene in Western style. ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ladislav Kupkovič, Dezider Kardoš, Eugen Suchoň, Peter Machajdik, Edmund Pascha, Alexander Albrecht, Ján Levoslav Bella, Ján Cikker, Vladimír Godár, Alexander Moyzes, Miroslav Žbirka, List of Slovak Composers, Ján Móry, Peter Breiner, Mikuláš Schneider-Trnavský, Viliam Figuš-Bystrý, Ján Valašťan Dolinský, Ľudovít Rajter, Ivan Tásler, Juraj Beneš, Dušan Rapoš, Mikuláš Škuta, Frico Kafenda, Ivan Hrušovský, Jan Francisci, Tibor Frešo, Ján Lehotský. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Dezider Kardo (* 23 December 1914 18 March 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. Kardo graduated in 1937 and resumed his studies Master's School of the Prague Conservatory up to 1939, where he was a student of Vítzslav Novák. From 1939 to 1945 he was head of the Slovak Radio Music Department in Preov, from 1945 to 1951 head of the Czechoslovak Radio Music Department in Koice and since 1951 in Bratislava. In 1952 he became the first director of the Slovak Philharmonic. In the years 19551963 he was the president of the Slovak Composers Union. Kardo 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). ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=15058968 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ladislav Kupkovi?, Oliver Von Dohnányi, Ján Levoslav Bella, Peter Breiner, Mikuláš Schneider-Trnavský, ?udovít Rajter, Bohdan Warchal, Ladislav Slovák, Tibor Frešo, Ondrej Lenárd, Peter Feranec, Bystrík Režucha. Excerpt: Oliver von Dohnányi (born March 2, 1955) is a Slovak conductor. He is currently Intendant/Artistic Director of the Opera of the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava, Intendant/Artistic Director of the Opera of the Moravian-Silesian National Theatre, Ostrava and principal guest conductor of the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava and Slovak Sinfonietta Orchestra. Dohnányi was born in Trenín, Czechoslovakia, (now in Slovakia), into a musical family. He studied violin, composition and conducting at the Prague Academy for Music under Professor Václav Neumann and Alois Klíma, and at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna under Professor Otmar Suitner, taking masterclasses with famous conductors Franco Ferrara, Arvid Janssons and Igor Markevich. He made his début, with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava, in 1979 and continued to conduct this orchestra regularly until 1986, which included many recordings not only for Slovak National Radio, but also for the Naxos Records Marco Polo imprint, Supraphon, Panton, Verga and Opus labels. From 1978 he worked extensively with the chamber ensemble Canticorum Iubilo, with which he toured Spain, Belgium, Sweden and the USSR. During 19861991, he was principal conductor of the Slovak National Opera, where he enlarged the Opera's repertoire with the scenic works of Borodin, Puccini, Bellini, Rossini, Smetana and Verdi, as well as conducting the company in an award-winning production of Faust at the Edinburgh Festival (1990). He performed with the Slovak Natio... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=8778204 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Michal Martikán, Milan Jurčina, Peter Sejna, Ján Levoslav Bella, Koloman Sokol, Aurel Stodola, Simon Bacher, Ivan Stodola, Janko Alexy, Martin Cibák, Diana Doll, Jaromír Dragan, Janko Kráľ, Martin Rázus, Peter Cibák, Lenka Ilavská, Marek Uram, Gabriela Brosková, Roman Vajs, Roman Štrba, Ivan Droppa. Excerpt:Aurel Stodola Aurel Boleslav Stodola 10 May 1859 Liptószentmiklós , Kingdom of Hungary ) (now Liptovský Mikulá , Slovakia ) - 25 December 1942 Zürich , Switzerland ) was a Slovak engineer , physicist , and inventor . He was a pioneer in the area of technical thermodynamics and its applications and published his book Die Dampfturbine in 1903. In addition to the thermodynamic issues involved in turbine design the book discussed aspects of fluid flow, vibration, stress analysis of plates, shells and rotating discs and stress concentrations at holes and fillets. Stodola was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Swiss Polytechnical Institute (now ETH ) in Zurich. One of his students was Albert Einstein . Aurel Stodola's Steam and Gas Turbines was cited by Soviet rocket scientist Fridrikh Tsander in the 1920s. Published in English in 1927 and reprinted many times up to 1945, it was a basic reference for engineers working on the first generation of jet propulsion engines in the United States. Stodola worked closely with industries on the development of the first practical gas turbines, in particular Brown, Boveri ... Read more

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Chapters: People From Liptovský Mikuláš, Michal Martikán, Milan Jurčina, Peter Sejna, Ján Levoslav Bella, Jozef Lenárt, Koloman Sokol, Aurel Stodola, Simon Bacher, Ivan Stodola, Janko Alexy, Martin Cibák, Diana Doll, Pavol Rusko, Jaromír Dragan, Janko Kráľ, Martin Rázus, Jakub Grajchman, Peter Cibák, Lenka Ilavská, Marek Uram, Ferdinand Čatloš, Gabriela Brosková, Roman Vajs, Roman Štrba, Ivan Droppa. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 65. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Michal Martikán (born May 18, 1979 in Liptovský Mikulá) is a Slovak slalom canoeist. In 1996 he became the first athlete to win an Olympic Games gold medal for Slovakia after the country's independence in 1993. In the following two Olympics he won the silver medal in the same C1 event. He was awarded the silver medal after controversial verdict of referee in Athens 2004. However, he won gold after four years at 2008 Olympics and thus became the most successful paddler ever. He has also won the World Championships four times, in 1997, 2002, 2003, and 2007. He is considered by many the greatest C-1 slalom paddler alive. At the age of 16, Michal Martikán became the youngest winner of a World Cup slalom canoeing event. Three months later, now 17 years old, Martikan was in sixth place after the first run of the canoe slalom singles event at the 1996 Olympics. With nothing to lose, he went all out on the second run and just bettered the score of defending champion Luká Pollert of the Czech Republic. Martikán was the first Olympic champion to represent independent Slovakia. He entered the 2000 Olympics as the favourite, having consistently finished near the top in every major competition and in each World Cup series. At the Sydney Games, Martikán registered the best score in the qualifying round, but was only in fifth place...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=804614 ... Read more