Gejza Dusík 1907-1988 was a Slovak composer. He is one of the pioneers of Slovak popular music and, together with Pavel Braxatoris and František Krištof Veselý, he is one of the co-founders of Slovak operetta.
Gejza Dusík is a co-creator of the history of Slovak music, together with his generational counterparts Alexander Moyzes, Eugene Suchoň and Ján Cikker. Although he worked in the field of the entertainment genre, his contribution to musical modernism, as the creator of the Slovak national operetta, is very significant.
After graduating in 1928, he completed four semesters of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Bratislava. Since he was already the author of several popular dance songs during his high school studies, he abandoned medicine and decided to devote himself only to music. He went to study composition with Professor Eugen Zádor at the New Vienna Conservatory (Neues Wiener Conservatorium), where he spent the years 1932 - 1936. As early as 1935, before graduating from the conservatory, his first operetta A Thousand Meters of Love premiered at the Slovak National Theater in Bratislava. He wrote it on the theme of the period comedy by Emanuel Brožík, and Dr. Juraj Haluzický.
In 1939 he started working in the Slovak Authors 'Association, which was later renamed the Slovak Authors' Protection Association (SOZA). Between 1942 and 1948, he founded and ran his own music publishing house. In 1945, a delegation of the SAS - Slovak Authors' Association in the grouping Ján Cikker, Gejza Dusík, Ilja Jozef Marko and Pavol Čády signed a cooperation between the two authors' unions with OSA (Authors' Protection Association) - with the Czech Association. [1] In 1949 he became director of the association and worked as director of the association until 1974.
Gejza Dusík is the author of about 250 dance songs, musical comedies and operettas. He wrote a total of 13 operettas, of which until 1945 the most popular was the Blue Rose on the libretto by Dr. Paul Braxatoris. The socialist art of operetta has long been rejected as a bourgeois experience. However, it was Gejza Dusík and his long-time faithful librettist Pavol Braxatoris who revived the tradition on the stage of the New Stage in 1954 with the operetta Zlatá rybka.
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