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\n \n About work:

Ludwig van Beethoven´s two hundredth anniversary was recently celebrated on all over the world of culture. This jubilee an impulse to Ján Cikker to create a composition in which he favoured the great genius in music and makes a confession of love and admiration to him. At the end of the year he is finishing the Symphonic composition Hommage à Beethoven.
Beethoven´s overture “Coriolan“ served as a basis for Cikker´s music elaboration. It became a pattern and source for modern transformation of single music-composing elements. When speaking about the modern transformation it is necessary to understand first of all that the composer nowadays sets forth not only the technique – composing overture formation of the classical composer, but also a response of thoughts referred to the work. Cikker did not choose Coriolan by chance. Beethoven´s composition was attractive for him because of musical factors – outstanding contrast stretches and an uncommon dynamic bow and no less also the consciousness, that the tragedy of Coriolan – an antique heroe is very comformable to contemporary man´s symptoms.
At a frame work Cikker was following and effort to keep up the classical expression. Construction Hommage is form scheme similar to Coriolan – sonata form with code. It preserves also the logic of dynamic fractures although on the contrary from Beethoven Cikker is more restrained as for gradation passages. From that reason he omits also dramatically built up Beethoven´s introduction. Otherwise Cikker is following the inner cartridge and a dynamic bow of Coriolan – code in pianissimo but the confrontation of contrast is dynamically restrained in Hommage too.


\n (Ľubomír Chalupka, in: commentary to the LP Opus 9112 0124, 1971.)
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First performance in Slovakia

\n \n \n 21.05.1970, Prague spring,\n Vladislav Hall of the Prague Castle,\n Prague,\n CS\n\n
Performers: Slovak Philharmonic, Slovak Philharmonic Choir, Jan Maria Dobrodinský (umv.), Detský zbor Československého rozhlasu, Ondrej Francisci (umv.), Ladislav Slovák (dir.)\n
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