Josef Suk - Vysehrad Cemetery (Prague, Czechia)
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Modern tombstone of a prominent Czech violinist Josef Suk, decorated by steel brok violin, you can find in the Czech national burial ground - Vyšehrad cemetery in Prague (Slavínský hrbitov pri kostele sv. Petra a Pavla na Vyšehrade).
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Location: Hlavní město Praha, Czechia
Date Posted: 04/17/2020
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Modern tombstone of a prominent Czech violinist Josef Suk, decorated by steel brok violin, you can find in the Czech national burial ground - Vyšehrad cemetery in Prague (Slavínský hrbitov pri kostele sv. Petra a Pavla na Vyšehrade).
Josef Suk modern tombstone from black syenite is decorated by broken violin from stainless steel. Tombstone was designed by architect Patrik Kotas. Grave can be found in Department 9 of the Vyšehrad cemetery under number 96.
Josef Suk (August 8, 1929 – July 6,2011) was a Czech violinist, violist, chamber musician and conductor. Josef Suk was born in Prague, the grandson of the composer and violinist Josef Suk, and great-grandson of the composer Antonín Dvorák. After finishing high school in 1945 he entered the Prague Conservatory (1945-1951), where his teachers were Jaroslav Kocián, Norbert Kubát and Karel Šnebergr. The most important of all his teachers was Jaroslav Kocián, who started teaching him privately when Suk was 7 years old.
In 1974, as a commemoration of the 100th anniversary of birth of his grandfather Josef Suk, he founded the Suk Chamber Orchestra. Suk acted as its leader and conductor till 2000. His violin art was characterized by a rotund and rich tone, glass-clear intonation and an idiomatic interpretation. Suk was one of the world's best interpreters of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. His recordings of Dvorák's Violin Concerto are exemplary. He held the title of Meritorious Artist and since 1977 the title of National Artist. In 2002 he was awarded the National Order of the Legion of Honour.
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