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



Josef Suk Mozart Adagio for Violin and Orchestra in E

约瑟夫·苏克（捷克语：Josef Suk，1874年1月4日－1935年5月29日)，捷克作曲家，小提琴家。早年在布拉格音乐学院师从德沃夏克，1898年与德沃夏克之女结婚，1905年丧妻。1922年起在布拉格音乐学院任教，学生有马尔蒂努等。苏克的音乐风格受德沃夏克影响较大，早期作品有一定的民族乐派色彩，但晚期作品风格有所变化，追求复杂的和声与对位。苏克有较高的旋律天赋，但风格比较保守，因此作品相对鲜为人知。他最著名的作品是之一是《亚兹拉尔交响曲》。

作为小提琴家，他是著名的捷克弦乐四重奏团的创始人之一，并长期担任第二小提琴。他的孙子也是世界闻名的小提琴家。
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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.