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Education Prague Conservatory (1885–1892) Compositions Asrael Symphony, Asrael Symphony, Serenade for Strings, Serenade for Strings, Praga - op 26, Praga - op 26, Meditation on the Old Czech Chorale 'St Wenceslas' - op 35a, Meditation on the Old Czech Chorale 'St Wenceslas' - op 35a, Towards a New Life - op 35c, Towards a New Life - op 35c, Piano Quartet in A minor - op 1: II Adagio, Piano Quartet in A minor - op 1: II Adagio, Pohadka leta - op 29: II V poledne, Pohadka leta - op 29: II V poledne, Serenade for Strings - op 6: III Adagio - Piu andante - Tempo I, Serenade for Strings - op 6: III Adagio - Piu andante - Tempo I, Serenade for Strings - op 6: IV Allegro giocoso - ma non troppo presto - Vivace, Serenade for Strings - op 6: IV Allegro giocoso - ma non troppo presto - Vivace, Piano Quintet in G minor - op 8: I Allegro energico, Piano Quintet in G minor - op 8: I Allegro energico, Symphony no 2 - op 27 "Asrael": V Adagio e maestoso - Allegro appassionato - Adagio e maestoso - Andante maestoso - Adagio e mesto, Symphony no 2 - op 27 "Asrael": V Adagio e maestoso - Allegro appassionato - Adagio e maestoso - Andante maestoso - Adagio e mesto, Symphony no 2 - op 27 "Asrael": IV Adagio, Symphony no 2 - op 27 "Asrael": IV Adagio, Pohadka leta - op 29: I Hlasy zivota a utechy, Pohadka leta - op 29: I Hlasy zivota a utechy, Pohadka leta - op 29: V Noc, Pohadka leta - op 29: V Noc, Symphony no 2 - op 27 "Asrael": III Vivace - Andante sostenuto - Appassionato - Maestoso, Symphony no 2 - op 27 "Asrael": III Vivace - Andante sostenuto - Appassionato - Maestoso, Ballade and Serenade - op 3: II Ballade in D minor, Ballade and Serenade - op 3: II Ballade in D minor, Zivotem a snem - op 30: IX Sepotave a tajemne Poco andante, Zivotem a snem - op 30: IX Sepotave a tajemne Poco andante, Letni dojmy - op 22b: III Vecerni nalada Andante espressivo, Letni dojmy - op 22b: III Vecerni nalada Andante espressivo, Symphony no 1 - op 14 - JSkat 40: III Allegro vivace – Poco meno mosso – Tempo I, Symphony no 1 - op 14 - JSkat 40: III Allegro vivace – Poco meno mosso – Tempo I, Ukolebavky - op 33: IV K uzdraveni Andante moderato, Ukolebavky - op 33: IV K uzdraveni Andante moderato, Zivotem a snem - op 30: VIII Jemne - svitorne Vivace, Zivotem a snem - op 30: VIII Jemne - svitorne Vivace, Piano Quartet in A minor - op 1: III Allegro con fuoco, Piano Quartet in A minor - op 1: III Allegro con fuoco, Ukolebavky - op 33: III Sentimentalni sebeparodie na poulicni pisnicku Andante quasi adagio, Ukolebavky - op 33: III Sentimentalni sebeparodie na poulicni pisnicku Andante quasi adagio, About Mother - op 28: IV About Mother’s Heart Andante sostenuto, About Mother - op 28: IV About Mother’s Heart Andante sostenuto, Elegie (pod dojmem Zeyerova Vysehradu) - op 23, Elegie (pod dojmem Zeyerova Vysehradu) - op 23, Ukolebavky - op 33: II Popevek Andante, Ukolebavky - op 33: II Popevek Andante, Ukolebavky - op 33: I Nad spicimi decky Andante sostenuto, Ukolebavky - op 33: I Nad spicimi decky Andante sostenuto, Piano Quartet in A minor - op 1: I Allegro appassionato, Piano Quartet in A minor - op 1: I Allegro appassionato, Letni dojmy - op 22b: I V poledne Moderato, Letni dojmy - op 22b: I V poledne Moderato, Pohadka leta - op 29: III Intermezzo Slepi hudci, Pohadka leta - op 29: III Intermezzo Slepi hudci, Four Pieces for Violin and Piano - op 17: No 1 Quasi ballata, Four Pieces for Violin and Piano - op 17: No 1 Quasi ballata, Ukolebavky - op 33: V Vanocni sen ditete Moderato con moto, Ukolebavky - op 33: V Vanocni sen ditete Moderato con moto, Zivotem a snem - op 30: VII Jednoduse - pozdeji s vyrazem drtive moci Adagio non tanto, Zivotem a snem - op 30: VII Jednoduse - pozdeji s vyrazem drtive moci Adagio non tanto, Symphony no 1 - op 14 - JSkat 40: II Adagio – Pochettino piu mosso – Molto appassionato – Tempo I, Symphony no 1 - op 14 - JSkat 40: II Adagio – Pochettino piu mosso – Molto appassionato – Tempo I, Piano Quintet in G minor - op 8: III Scherzo: Presto, Piano Quintet in G minor - op 8: III Scherzo: Presto, Piano Trio in C minor - op 2: I Allegro, Piano Trio in C minor - op 2: I Allegro, Piano Quintet in G minor - op 8: IV Allegro fuoco, Piano Quintet in G minor - op 8: IV Allegro fuoco, Serenade for Strings - op 6: II Allegro - ma non troppo e grazioso, Serenade for Strings - op 6: II Allegro - ma non troppo e grazioso, Symphony no 1 - op 14 - JSkat 40: IV Allegro – Allegro con brio – Meno mosso e molto largamente – Poco piu mosso Allegro non tanto – A tempo (Allegro con brio) – Pesante – Grandioso – Maestoso – Meno mosso e molto largamente – Allegro non tanto – Allegro con brio – Grandioso e maestoso, Symphony no 1 - op 14 - JSkat 40: IV Allegro – Allegro con brio – Meno mosso e molto largamente – Poco piu mosso Allegro non tanto – A tempo (Allegro con brio) – Pesante – Grandioso – Maestoso – Meno mosso e molto largamente – Allegro non tanto – Allegro con brio – Grandioso e maestoso, Ripening - op 34 - JSkat 70, Ripening - op 34 - JSkat 70, Tempo di Minuetto in G major, Tempo di Minuetto in G major, Klavirni skladby - op 7: IV Idylky: No 1 Moderato - No 2 Tempo comodo, Klavirni skladby - op 7: IV Idylky: No 1 Moderato - No 2 Tempo comodo, Symphony no 2 - op 27 "Asrael": I Andante sostenuto - Andante con moto e resoluto - Piu pesante e maestoso, Symphony no 2 - op 27 "Asrael": I Andante sostenuto - Andante con moto e resoluto - Piu pesante e maestoso, Ukolebavky - op 33: VI Smrti - prijd jen tise Andante con moto, Ukolebavky - op 33: VI Smrti - prijd jen tise Andante con moto, Fairy Tale - op 16: IV Runa's Curse and How It was Broken by True Love, Fairy Tale - op 16: IV Runa's Curse and How It was Broken by True Love, O Matince - op 28: II Kdysi z jara Adagio - Allegro non troppo - Adagio, O Matince - op 28: II Kdysi z jara Adagio - Allegro non troppo - Adagio, Pohadka leta - op 29: IV V moci preludu, Pohadka leta - op 29: IV V moci preludu, Jaro - op 22a: II Vanek Andante - quasi allegretto, Jaro - op 22a: II Vanek Andante - quasi allegretto, Zivotem a snem - op 30: V K uzdraveni meho syna Klidne - s hlubokym citem Adagio, Zivotem a snem - op 30: V K uzdraveni meho syna Klidne - s hlubokym citem Adagio, About Mother - op 28: V Remembering Andante, About Mother - op 28: V Remembering Andante, Piano Trio in C minor - op 2: II Andante, Piano Trio in C minor - op 2: II Andante Similar People Antonin Dvorak, Vitezslav Novak, Bedrich Smetana, Jiri Belohlavek, Vaclav Neumann | ||
Josef suk symphony no 1 in e major op 14 1898
Josef Suk (4 January 1874 – 29 May 1935) was a Czech composer and violinist. He studied under Antonín Dvořák, whose daughter he married.
Contents
- Josef suk symphony no 1 in e major op 14 1898
- Josef suk serenade for strings op 6 1892
- Biography
- Musical style
- Chronological list of compositions
- References
Josef suk serenade for strings op 6 1892
Biography
From a young age, Josef Suk (born in Křečovice, Bohemia) was deeply involved and well-trained in music. He learned organ, violin, and piano from his father, Josef Suk senior, and was trained further in violin by the Czech violinist Antonín Bennewitz. His theory studies were conducted with several other composers including Josef Bohuslav Foerster, Karel Knittl, and Karel Stecker. He later focused his writing on chamber works under the teachings of Hanuš Wihan. Despite extensive musical training, his musical skill was often said to be largely inherited. Though he continued his lessons with Wihan another year after the completion of his schooling, Suk's greatest inspiration came from another of his teachers, Czech composer Antonín Dvořák.
Known as one of Dvořák's favorite pupils, Suk also became personally close to his mentor. Underlying this was Dvořák's respect for Suk, reflected in Suk's 1898 marriage to Dvořák's daughter, Otilie, marking some of the happiest times in the composer's life and music. However, the last portion of Suk's life was punctuated with tragedy. Over the span of 14 months around 1905, not only did Suk's mentor Dvořák die, but so did Otilie. These events inspired Suk's Asrael Symphony.
Because of a shared heritage — and the coincidence of their dying within a few months of one another — Suk has been closely compared, in works and style, to fellow Czech composer Otakar Ostrčil. Suk, alongside Vitezslav Novak and Ostrčil, is considered one of the leading composers in Czech Modernism, with much shared influence among the three coming in turn from Dvořák. Eminent German figures such as composer Johannes Brahms and critic Eduard Hanslick recognized Suk's work during his time with the Czech Quartet. Over time, well known Austrian composers such as Gustav Mahler and Alban Berg also began to take notice of Suk and his work.
Although he wrote mostly instrumental music, Suk occasionally branched out into other genres. Orchestral music was his strong suit, notably the Serenade for Strings, Op. 6 (1892). His time with the Czech Quartet, though performing successful concerts until his retirement, was not always met with public approval. Several anti-Dvořák campaigns came into prominence; criticism not only being directed at the quartet, but towards Suk specifically. The leftist critic Zdeněk Nejedlý accused the Czech Quartet of inappropriately playing concerts in the Czech lands during World War I. While these attacks diminished Suk's spirits, they did not hinder his work. Suk retired in 1933, although he continued to be a valuable and inspirational public figure to the Czechs.
Josef Suk died on May 29, 1935, in Benešov, Czechoslovakia. He is the grandfather of famed Czech violinist Josef Suk.
Musical style
Suk's musical style started off with a heavy influence from his mentor, Dvořák. The biggest change of Suk's style came after he reached a "dead end" in his early musical style (music played less of a role in Suk's life outside of his schooling), just before he began a stylistic shift during 1897–1905, perhaps realizing that the strong influence of Dvořák would limit his work. Morbidity was always a large factor in Suk's music. For instance, he wrote his own funeral march in 1889 and it appears significantly also in a major work, the "funeral symphony" Asrael, Op. 27. Ripening, a symphonic poem, was also a story of pain and questioning the value of life. Other works, however — such as the music he set to Julius Zeyer's drama Radúz a Mahulena — display his happiness, which he credited to his marriage with Otilie. Another of Suk's works, Pohádka (Fairy Tale), was drawn from his work with Radúz a Mahulena. The closest Suk came to opera is in his incidental music to the play Pod jabloní (Beneath the Apple Tree).
The majority of Suk's papers are kept in Prague. There is also a new catalogue of Suk's works that contains more manuscripts than any before it, some of them also containing sketches by Suk.
Suk said of himself: "I do not bow to anyone, except to my own conscience and to our noble Lady Music… and yet at the same time I know that thereby I serve my country, and praise the great people from the period of our wakening who taught us to love our country."