• 1953 – 1957

    studied composition with Prof. Ján Cikker at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava

  • 1957 – 1960

    studied music education and Slovak language at the Teacher’s Training College and Faculty of Letters in Bratislava

  • 1960 – 1968

    taught at the Secondary School for Teachers in Modra

  • 1968 – 1986

    taught at the Teacher’s Training College of the Comenius University in Trnava

  • 1969 – 1972

    studied composition with Prof. Ctirad Kohoutek at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno

  • 1973 – 1975

    studied experimental composition with Prof. Alois Piňos at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno

  • 1974

    achieved PhDr. degree at the Faculty of Letters of the Šafárik University in Prešov

  • since 1986

    acts as a lecturer at the Faculty of Pedagogy of the Comenius University in Bratislava

“Gahér in his extensive and wide-ranging genre work reflects a diverse means of expression, which is always given by a theme, or by the individual makeup of each of his compositions. Gahér uses both strict and free twelve-tone methods, different construction practices, and free styles derived from vocally respective sound parameters.”

 

(JURÍK, Marián: Jozef Gahér. In: 100 slovenských skladateľov. Ed. Marián Jurík, Peter Zagar. Bratislava : Národné hudobné centrum, 1998, p. 99 – 100.)

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