{"content":"\n    <div class=\"detail-content\">\n        \n        <strong>About work:</strong> <p>Zeljenka is a type of composer for whom the moral aspect of the music, as a means of communication, plays an eminent role. This is partly closely related to his perpetual search for new means of expression which would adequately express his ideas, often not purely musical. The endeavour to attain a maximum of expressiveness and to solve the problems of contemporary composition (in the artisan sense of the word) are the poles between which Zeljenka's work oscillates. It is possible that the tension which arose out of these tendencies led towards his inclination to connect music with poetry, the theatre and films. The Symphony No. 2 has an exceptional position in Zeljenka's work. The discipline of neoclassicistic convention which predominates in this Symphony stands, to a certain extent, as a contrast to the above mentioned tendencies. However, in spite of the strictness of traditional forms and intentionally narrowed palette of expressive means, he has created a composition that is not only comprehensible and graspable but also spontaneous and full of optimism, at the same time, not lacking in ingenious solutions (e.g. the polymetry of the first movement, the harmonic conception of the second movement and the rhythm and polyphony of the finale). The Symphony has three movements. The enclosing ones, of sparking character, are conceived on a form of sonata's allegro and are divided by a cantabile slow passacaglia. This symphony proves that the composer, who is well acquainted with contemporary compository techniques, has all the necessary knowledge to create a work which revives traditional basic musical forms as well as brings fresh musical pictures to give it social validity.</p><br>\n        <em>(Roman Berger, in: foreword to the score, Štátne hudobné vydavateľstvo 1962.)</em><br>\n        <br>\n        <p>\n            <strong>Movements:</strong><br>\n\n                Moderato e pesante\n                \n                <br>\n\n                Adagio\n                \n                <br>\n\n                Allegretto\n                \n                <br>\n            </p>\n\n        <br><p>\n                <p><strong>First performance in Slovakia</strong></p>\n                \n                \n                07.1961,\n                Bratislava,\n                SK\n\n<br><span class=\"type\">Performers: </span>Czechoslovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ladislav Slovák (dir.)\n                <br>\n\n\n            </p>\n    </div>\n"}