Education
He studied piano and composition at the conservatory in Bratislava.
He studied piano and composition at the conservatory in Bratislava.
He has played piano since the age of six. He left Prúdy as suddenly as he had left conservatory only to establish the first Czechoslovak art rock band. The repertoire of, comprising mostly instrumental pieces, included reinterpretations of the themes of classics such as Joseph Haydn, Béla Bartók and Igor Stravinsky, complemented by original compositions.
When disbanded in 1979, Varga started a solo career.
In the meantime he continued to contribute to popular music His ongoing collaboration led to five successful albums and to the first rock musical in Slovakia.
Already at this stage his work bore signs of postmodernism (Eufónia of the album Konvergencie), which later became the basic principle of his work.
He left the conservatory after three years to become a member of the group Prúdy, and contributed to the legendary album Zvoňte zvonky.