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Dec 21, 1932 Bratislava, Bratislava Region, Slovakia Died on 13 Jul 2007 (aged 74)
Slovak music educator and composer
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About Ilja Zeljenka
- Ilja Zeljenka (21 December 1932 – 13 July 2007) was a Slovak composer. Born in Bratislava, Zeljenka studied music with Jan Cikker from 1951-1956.
- During the 1970s his more experimental idiom was suppressed by the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia, and he produced music based on folk music and neoromantic styles.
- His very large output includes three operas (including Bátorycka (1994), based on the story of Elizabeth Báthory and Posledné dni Velkej Moravy [The Last Days of Greater Moravia] (1996)), film music, piano works (including two pieces for piano and bongos), fourteen string quartets, nine symphonies, theatre music and electronic music.
- Among his vocal compositions is the cantata Oswiecim (1959), about the Auschwitz concentration camp.
