Souk

Japanese: スーク

Czech composer and violinist. He studied under composer JB Forster (1859-1951) and Dvorak at the Prague Conservatory, and was friends with Novák. In 1898, he married Dvorak's daughter. He was active as a leader in the Czech music world, serving as the director of his alma mater and mentoring Martinu and others. In his early masterpiece, Serenade for Strings (1892), he showed the lyricism inherited from his teacher Dvorak, but he gradually moved to more complex writing styles and used atonal sounds (see Atonal Music). His representative works from his mature period include the symphonic poem Prague (1904), Symphony No. 2 Asrael (1905-1906), and the symphonic poem Summer Fairy Tale (1909). His grandson J. Suk (1929-2011) is also known as a virtuoso violinist, and founded the Suk Trio in 1952. He played the viola in a quintet and performed with the Smetana String Quartet. He is active in both solo and chamber music. He has visited Japan many times since 1959.

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Japanese:

チェコの作曲家，バイオリン奏者。プラハ音楽院で作曲家J.B.フェルステル〔1859-1951〕，ドボルジャークらに学び，ノバークと交友。1898年，ドボルジャークの娘と結婚。母校の院長を務めるなどチェコ音楽界の指導者として活躍し，マルティヌーらを育てた。初期の代表作《弦楽セレナード》（1892年）では師ドボルジャーク譲りの抒情性をみせたが，次第に複雑な書法へと移行し，無調（無調音楽参照）的な響きも用いた。円熟期の代表作として交響詩《プラハ》（1904年），《交響曲第２番アスラエル》（1905年−1906年），交響詩《夏のおとぎ話》（1909年）などが知られる。同名の孫J.スーク〔1929-2011〕も名バイオリン奏者として知られ，1952年スーク三重奏団を主宰。五重奏曲のビオラ担当でスメタナ弦楽四重奏団とも共演するなど，ソロと室内楽に活躍。1959年以来たびたび来日している。→フィルクスニー

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