biography
pronunciation:
[sook]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1875–1935)
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| biography:
| Composer and violinist, born in Křečovice, Czech Republic (formerly Bohemia, Austrian Empire). He studied in Prague under Dvořák, whose daughter he married, and carried on the master's Romantic tradition by his violin Fantaisie (1903), the symphonic poem Prague, and particularly by his deeply felt second symphony, Asrael (1905), in which he mourned the deaths of his master and of his wife. He was for 40 years a member of the Czech Quartet, and in 1922 became professor of composition in the Prague Conservatory. |
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