捷克著名的作曲家Josef Suk(04/01/1874-20/05/1935)

Josef SUK: Scherzo Fantastique, Opus 25 - Part 1 of 2



Josef Suk Mozart Adagio for Violin and Orchestra in E

約瑟夫·蘇克（捷克語：Josef Suk，1874年1月4日－1935年5月29日)，捷克作曲家，小提琴家。早年在布拉格音樂學院師從德沃夏克，1898年與德沃夏克之女結婚，1905年喪妻。1922年起在布拉格音樂學院任教，學生有馬爾蒂努等。蘇克的音樂風格受德沃夏克影響較大，早期作品有一定的民族樂派色彩，但晚期作品風格有所變化，追求複雜的和聲與對位。蘇克有較高的旋律天賦，但風格比較保守，因此作品相對鮮為人知。他最著名的作品是之一是《亞茲拉爾交響曲》。

作為小提琴家，他是著名的捷克弦樂四重奏團的創始人之一，並長期擔任第二小提琴。他的孫子也是世界聞名的小提琴家。
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Josef Suk (4 January 1874 – 29 May 1935) was a Czech composer and violinist.

Suk was born in Křečovice. He studied at Prague Conservatory from 1885 to 1892, where he was a pupil of Antonín Dvořák and Antonín Bennewitz. In 1898, he married Dvořák's eldest daughter, Otilie Dvořáková (1878–1905), affectionately known as Otilka.^[1] He formed the Czech Quartet with three of his fellow students — Suk played second violin with them for most of his life. From 1922 he taught at the Prague Conservatory where his pupils included Bohuslav Martinů and Rudolf Firkušný. He died in Benešov.

Suk's early works show the influence of Dvořák and Johannes Brahms, while later pieces use more extended harmonies to create a more personal and complex style. Unlike many of his countrymen, he made little use of Czech folk music. His best known works are probably the youthful Serenade for Strings (1892) and the Asrael symphony in C minor, (1906), a work written in response to the deaths, firstly, of his father-in-law, and later, his own wife. Norman Lebrecht has singled out Václav Talich's 1952 recording of the Asrael Symphony with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra on Supraphon as #19 in his list of the 100 best recordings of the century.^[2]

Other pieces include the Fairy Tale Suite (1900), the cycle of piano works Things Lived and Dreamed (1909), and the trilogy of symphonic poems A Summer's Tale (1909), The Ripening (1917) and Epilogue (1929, for soprano, baritone and bass soli, chorus and orchestra).

He won a silver medal at the Art Competitions during the Olympic Games of 1932 at Los Angeles with his work Into a New Life.

Suk was the grandfather of the violinist Josef Suk.