Vladimír Čížik

PhDr. Vladimír Čížik, CSc. was a Slovak musicologist, music publicist, pianist, pedagogue and specialist in the music museology. In the field of research he focused on the documentation of Slovak concert life, which bore fruit in a number of exceptional monographs and a large number of music reviews. 

He is the author and compiler of several studies and lexica on Slovak concert artists of various disciplines (for the years 1974 to 2000), and the co-author of publications on and catalogues of the musical collections of the Slovak National Museum. 

He also served for a time as the director of the Music Museum, contributing significantly to its development. Not only did he manage the institution, but he also actively acquired and collected documents and museum artifacts, created catalogs, and processed them professionally. During this period, he acted as curator and scriptwriter for several exhibitions marking the anniversaries of both Slovak and international composers and other figures, including: Béla Bartók and Slovakia (1969), Frico Kafenda (1973), Leoš Janáček and Slovakia (1979), Slovak Music after Liberation (1985), and Eugen Suchoň (1988).

Since 1984, he was one of the few theorists who also engaged in concert performance, focusing on works for solo piano. The concert programs were mostly conceived thematically, and he also served as the host of these events. Among the international composers featured were Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Frédéric Chopin, and Franz Liszt; from Slovak composers, he presented works by Pavol Bagin, Dezider Kardoš, Dušan Martinček, Ladislav Kupkovič, Ivan Parík, Eugen Suchoň, and Ilja Zeljenka.

As a music critic and reviewer, he collaborated primarily with the magazine Hudobný život, but also with daily newspapers such as Pravda, Práca, Smena, and others.