Ivan Stadtrucker
From Unearthing The Music
Prof. Ing. Ivan Stadtrucker Csc. (Born January 22, 1935 and died - May 26, 2017 in Krupina) was a Slovak screenwriter, dramaturgist, director of short films, writer, sound engineer technician, film theorist and teacher.
He is a graduate in Radio, Film and Television Technology from the Czech Technical University in Prague. At first he worked as television technician in Bratislava. After two years he became the head of sound production on television, where he founded and led the first studio for electronic music in Czechoslovakia. Around the 1960s, there was a change in stylistics in film production in Slovakia, and this change also involved the composition of film music. Ivan Stadtrucker was one of the first with Ilj Zeljenko to experiment with a new method of composing film music with electronic music used in conjunction with musique concrète.