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1924 – 1928
Studies at the Teacher Training Institute in Levice, while simultaneously studying externally at the Academy of Music and Drama in Bratislava
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1928 – 1932
Studied at the Academy of Music in Zagreb
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1932
Appointed regenschori (choirmaster) in Čadca
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1933 – 1938
Clerk in the music department of Matica slovenská and secretary of the Central Office of Slovak Amateur Theatres (in Turčiansky Svätý Martin); entrusted with leading the Union of Slovak Choirs (in Trenčianske Teplice)
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1938 – 1940
Music teacher at the Teacher Training Institute in Michalovce; collaborated with Slovak Radio
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1940 – 1945
Director of the Music Chamber in Bratislava; choirmaster of the Workers' Choir Tatran
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1945 – 1951
Music teacher at the Pedagogical Gymnasium in Trnava; conducted the Bradlan choir
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1951 – 1958
Director of the Music School in Kežmarok
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1958 – 1959
Teacher at the Higher Pedagogical School in Prešov
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1960 – 1962
Taught at the People’s School of Art in Prešov
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1962 – 1976
Director of the People’s School of Art in Tatranská Lomnica.
Anton Cíger was a music educator, composer, choir conductor, and an exceptionally active music popularizer and organizational figure. He made a significant contribution to the development of socialist musical culture in eastern Slovakia between 1951 and 1975.
His compositional technique was influenced by Viliam Figuš-Bystrý, and both his artistic output and life direction were shaped by Oskar Nedbal, thanks to whom he decided to continue his studies at the Academy of Music in Zagreb.
He composed over 400 works, covering nearly all genres of classical music, including stage and sacred music.
He collected over 3,000 Slovak folk songs from regions stretching from Kysuce to Zemplín, with full musical notation. Some of these songs he arranged for children’s, women’s, men’s, and mixed choirs (published under the title Sto šarišských piesní – One Hundred Šariš Songs, Martin, 1956).
He conducted choirs and orchestras in Čadca, Martin, Vrútky, Michalovce, Bratislava, Trnava, Kežmarok, Prešov (Moyzes, Šariš-Dukla), Tatranská Lomnica (Tatran), Poprad, and elsewhere, including an 80-member symphonic orchestra in Trnava (1951) and PUĽS (The Poddukliansky Ukrainian Folk Song and Dance Ensemble). He devoted much of his creative energy to leading the Bradlan workers' choir in Trnava, to which he also dedicated some of his compositions. In Trnava, he also became friends with Mikuláš Schneider-Trnavský.
While directing the Slovak music school in Kežmarok, he organized full-length chamber concerts, where he played first violin in a string quartet. In Tatranská Lomnica, he initiated the founding of the Festival of Singers from the Tatra Region (Festival podtatranských speváčikov).
Anton Cíger was also engaged in music scholarship and authored several theoretical works on vocal art.