Vladimír Godár

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Vladimír Godár (born 16 March 1956, in Bratislava) is a Slovak classical and film score composer. He is also known for his collaboration with the Czech violinist, singer, and composer Iva Bittová. As an academic, he is a writer, editor, and translator of books on historical music research. He has been active in reviving the music and reputation of 19th-century Slovak composer Ján Levoslav Bella.

Godár studied composition under

Godár won the 2001 Georges Delerue Award for the score of the film Landscape.^[1]

His 1998 collection of essays Heretical Quodlibets^[2]" is scheduled to be published in English by Dalkey in 2024, as part of its Eastern European Literature series.

Selected discography

• period performance specialist Andrew Parrott (original release, OPUS 9350 2090, re-released on Point Classics
  )
• Music for Cello, performed by
  Slovart Records
  SR-0027
• Barcarolle – Music for Violin; Slovart Records SR-0047
• Chamber Music, performed by Albrecht Quartet, Jozef Lupták (cello), Nora Skuta (piano); Slovart Records SR-0018
• Mater – suite for female voice (Iva Bittová), choir and Baroque string orchestra. (
  ECM New Series
  4765689)
• Moravian Folk Poetry in Songs; songs by Janáček, transcribed by Godár, performed by Iva Bittová and the Skampa Quartet. (Supraphon SU3794)
• Five arrangements of
  Naxos Records
  8.550417)