Music composer Ján Cikker (29th July 1911 Banská Bystrica – 21st Dec 1989 Bratislava) studied composing, conducting and organ playing at the Prague Conservatory from 1930 to 1936 and musicology at the Charles University at the same time, later (1936 – 1937) at the Music Academy in Vienna. Thanks to a thorough training already his early compositions reflected the fact that the composer not only mastered the compositional level of then Prague’s environment, but showed they also had some of the typical characteristics of compositional masters of a mature manuscript – a broad melodic gesture, vaulted expressive surfaces, idyll, dance rhythmic...