Slovák, Ladislav
Slovák, Ladislav
Slovák, Ladislav , Slovak conductor; b. Bratislava, Sept. 9, 1919. He studied organ and conducting at the Bratislava Cons. (1938–45) and conducting with Talich at the Bratislava Academy of Music (1949–53). He was music director of Bratislava Radio (from 1949), where he founded and conducted its choir; after serving as an assistant to Mravinsky and the Leningrad Phil. (1953–55), he returned to Bratislava as conductor of the Radio Orch. (1955–61); then was chief conductor of the Slovak Phil, there (1961–81) and of the Prague Sym. Orch. (1972–76). In 1964 he was made an Artist of Merit and in 1977 a National Artist by the Czech government.
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