Juraj Lexmann

Juraj Lexmann (19 January 1941 – 12 November 2025) was a Slovak musicologist, composer, film editor, and academic. He is best known for codifying modern Slovak Roman Catholic liturgical hymnals and for composing music for more than 120 films, as well as for his contributions to documentary sound design and musicological scholarship. Early life and career Juraj Lexmann was born in Bratislava on 19 January 1941. He began his career in 1958 as a laborer at an organ factory in Krnov. He later studied at the Industrial School for Musical Instrument Production in Kraslice while simultaneously completing studies in musical composition at the Ostrava Gymnasium. In 1964, he joined the public broadcaster as a film editor responsible for sound design, marking the beginning of his long-term professional involvement with film and music. His career combined practical work in sound and composition with theoretical reflection on film music. In the 1970s, he studied musicology at the Comenius University. After graduating, he founded the Department of Sound Composition at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava and served as Director of the Institute of Musicology of the Slovak Academy of Scien