Josef Suk (composer)
Josef Suk (4 January 1874 – 29 May 1935) was a Czech composer and violinist. He studied under Antonín Dvořák, whose daughter he married.[1]
Josef Suk
4 January 1874
29 May 1935 (aged 61)
- Violinist
- Composer
Private life[edit]
Suk married Dvorak's daughter, Otilie Suková, a composer in her own right, in 1898.[11] They had one child, a son, also named Josef, in 1898. Otilie died of heart failure aged 27 in 1905, a year after her father. Josef Suk Jr. in turn was father of the acclaimed violinist Josef Suk, who died in 2011.[12]
Suk retired in 1933,[4] although he continued to be a valuable and inspirational public figure to the Czechs.[13] Suk died on 29 May 1935, in Benešov, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic); he was buried in the cemetery of St Luke's Church, Křečovice.