Josef Suk (January 4, 1874 - May 29, 1935) was a Czech composer and violinist. January 4 is the 4th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1874 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... May 29 is the 149th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (150th in leap years). ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... Violin The violin is a stringed musical instrument that has four strings tuned a perfect fifth apart. ...

Suk was born in Krečovice. He studied at Prague Conservatory from 1885 to 1892, where he was a pupil of Antonín Dvořák (he married Dvořák's daughter in 1898). He formed the Czech Quartet with three of his fellow students—Suk played second violin with them for most of his life. From 1922 he taught at the Prague Conservatory where his pupils included Bohuslav Martinů. He died in Benešov. Krečovice is a village in the Czech Republic. ... Prague (Czech: Praha, see also other names) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. ... Antonín Dvořák Antonín Leopold Dvořák (listen â–¶(?)) (September 8, 1841 – May 1, 1904) was a Czech composer of romantic music. ... The Bohemian Quartet (known as the Czech Quartet after 1918) were an Czech string quartet that was founded in 1891. ... Bohuslav Martinů listen â–¶(?) (born in Polička, December 8, 1890 – August 28, 1959) was a Czech composer. ... Horní BeneÅ¡ov is also a town in the Czech Republic BeneÅ¡ov (pronounce Beneshoff) is a town in the Czech Republic, about 40 km southeast of Prague. ...

Suk's early works show the influence of Dvořák and Johannes Brahms, while later pieces use more extended harmonies to create a more personal and complex style. Unlike many of his countrymen, he made little use of Czech folk music. His best known works are probably the youthful Serenade for Strings (1892) and the symphony, Asrael (1906), a work written in response to the deaths of his wife and Dvořák. Other pieces include the Fairy Tale Suite (1900), the cycle of piano works Things Lived and Dreamed (1909), and the trilogy of symphonic poems A Summer's Tale (1909), The Ripening (1917) and Epilog (1929, for chorus and orchestra). Johannes Brahms (May 7, 1833 – April 3, 1897) was a German composer of Romantic music, who predominantly lived in Vienna, Austria. ... This article is about musical harmony. ... Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the people. ... SYMPHONY is an acronym standing for Single- or Multi-Process Optimization over Networks. ... This article is about the modern musical instrument. ... A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orchestral music in one or many movements in which some extra-musical programme provides a narrative or illustrative element. ...

Suk was the grandfather of the violinist Josef Suk.