Karel Pravoslav Sádlo

Karel Pravoslav Sádlo ( born September 5, 1898 in Prague; † August 24, 1971 ) was a Czech cellist and cello teacher.

Life

At the Prague Conservatory, he studied cello with Jan Burian and Julius Junek and chamber music with Ladislav Zelenka. After several concert tours in Europe, he devoted himself to teaching activities, teaching at the Conservatory and since 1946 at the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Most of the Czech cellists of the 1930s to 1950s, including the soloists and chamber musicians Miloš Sádlo František Smetana, Josef Chuchro, Antonín Kohout, František Sláma, were his pupils.

In 1928 he founded his own music publishing house Edition Sádlo, where he continued his cello compositions and didactic works and the works of other contemporary composers, such as Jaroslav Řídkýs published. His technical studies (1925 ) suggested - two years before the publication of the school Stutschewskys - a turn to modern techniques of cello playing at.

Sádlo was Dean of the Faculty of Music of the Academy of Performing Arts, a jury member of the European interpretation competitions and in the 1930s to the 1960s, also the organizer of the Prague musical life ( Prague artists club, Czech Association for Chamber Music, the Prague Spring Music Festival ).