First published at 13:05 UTC on January 22nd, 2024.
A Summer’s Tale, Op. 29 by Josef Suk
The Czech composer Josef Suk completed the majority of this work during the summer of 1907. Suk was balancing the demands of being a composer, performer, and teacher at this time resulting in the more involved c…
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A Summer’s Tale, Op. 29 by Josef Suk
The Czech composer Josef Suk completed the majority of this work during the summer of 1907. Suk was balancing the demands of being a composer, performer, and teacher at this time resulting in the more involved compositions such as his symphonic poems needing to be completed during holiday periods. While this work is ostensibly based on his summer holiday of 1907, it is also considered to be yet another composition done ‘in memorial’ for the death of his wife, Otille, and his mentor, Dvořák, both in 1904.
Suk made minor edits to the work over a two year period, with the completed composition having a premiere performance in January of 1909 in Prague.
This work is comprised of five movements:
I. Voices of Life and Consolation 00:00
II. Midday 15:07
III. Blind Musicians 22:03
IV. In the Power of Phantoms 27:42
V. Night 38:43
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