Otakar Ševčík

Otakar Ševčík ( born March 22, 1852 in Horažďovice; † January 18, 1934 in Pisek ) was a Czech violinist.

Biography

The son of a teacher and director of the church choir studied at Prague's Academic Grammar School and from 1866 to 1870 at the conservatory to play the violin. After graduation, he was from 1870 to 1873 worked as concertmaster at the Salzburg Mozarteum and later in Vienna, Poland and the Russian Kiev. Ševčík became known as violin soloist and as a chamber musician and played with Eugène Ysaÿe. Current and future stays abroad contributed to its popularity among his particularly extensive teaching.

According to an eye disease, he ended his concert career and taught from 1875 to 1892 at the Tsarist music school in Kharkiv, after 14 years at the Prague Conservatory. In 1909 he was returning to Vienna where he taught for nine years at the Vienna Music Academy. After the founding of Czechoslovakia, he returned to his home and was appointed professor of the Conservatory. Three times he was invited to longer educational visits to the United States, including Boston, Chicago and New York, conducted master classes in Mondsee and still led with 81 years of master classes by in England.

In 1957 in Vienna Liesing ( 23rd district ) was named the Sevcikgasse after him.

Textbooks for Violin

His violin studies and violin methods are still one of the most important lessons works for violin students. Among his most famous students include January and Jaroslav Kocian Kubelík.

Among these studies is one of The Little Ševčík, an elementary violin school that teaches the halftoning in 149 exercises as well as the School of Violin Technique, Erste Lage, Vol II: Second to seventh position and Vol III. Shifting, and Preparatory Exercises in Double - Stopping, Op 9

Werkausgaben

Violin schools

• The Little Ševčík, An Elementary Violin Tutor (1901 ). Miami, Florida: Kalmus / Warner Music. ISBN 0-7692-9729-3. Bosworth ISBN 0711998388
• Scales Chord Studies for Violin, Bosworth
• School of Violin Technique Op 1/1. Violin: Violin Studies, Bosworth, ISBN 0711995192 * School of Violin Technique Op 1/2. Violin, Bosworth ISBN 3936026742
• School of Violin Technique Op 1/4. Violin, Bosworth, ISBN 0711997225
• School of Bowing Technique Op 2/1, Violin, Bosworth, ISBN 071199837X
• School of Bowing Technique OP2 / second Violin, Bosworth
• School of Bowing Technique Op 2/3. Violin, Bosworth, ISBN 071199210X, ISBN 3936026750
• School of Bowing Technique OP2 / 4th Violin, Bosworth
• School of Bowing Technique OP2 / 5th Violin, Bosworth, ISBN 0711997012
• School of Bowing Technique OP2 / 6th Violin, Bosworth, ISBN 1844493075
• 40 Variations Op 3, Violin, Bosworth
• Violinschule Op 6 for Violin, Volume 1 to 7, Bosworth
• Trill preliminary Op 7 for Violin, Volume 1 and 2, Bosworth
• Change of position Op 8 violin, Bosworth, ISBN 1844495000
• Double handle preliminary Op 9 violin, Bosworth, ISBN 1846090113

Expenditures for viola and cello

• School of Viola Technique Op 1, Volume 1 to 4, Bosworth, ISBN 0711997705 (Vol. 1)
• School of Bowing Technique Op 2 for Viola, Volume 1 to 3, Bosworth
• 40 Variations Op 3 viola, Bosworth
• Change of position Op 8 Viola, Bosworth
• Double handle preliminary Op 9 Viola, Bosworth
• The Thumb Op 1/1. Cello, Bosworth
• Bowing Technique Op 2/1. Cello, Bosworth, ISBN 0711997160
• Bogentechnik OP2 / 4th Cello, Bosworth
• Bogentechnik OP2 / 5th Cello, Bosworth
• 40 Variations Op 3 Cello, Bosworth
• Change of position Op 8 cello, Bosworth, ISBN 0711995028

Edition for double bass

• Arc Studies Op. 2, arranged for double bass by Gerd Reinke, Bosworth, Cologne 1996