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Josef Suk - Meditation on the Old Czech Chorale 'St. Wenceslas', Op. 35a (1914)

Josef Suk (4 January 1874 – 29 May 1935) was a Czech composer and violinist. He studied under Antonín Dvořák, whose daughter he married. Please support my channel: https://ko-fi.com/bartjebartmans Meditace na staročeský chorál „Svatý Václave“, Op. 35a (1914) for String Quartet Dedicated: Ferdinand Pečírka Suk String Quartet Description by James Leonard [-] Josef Suk composed his Meditation on an Old Czech Hymn "St. Wenceslas" for string quartet, Op. 35, in August 1914. He wrote it to "strengthen the hope in the return of power to the hands of the Czech people, after the storms of wrath are over." Like many of his countrymen, Suk believed that World War I would result in the independence of his country from the Austrian-Hungarian empire. Toward this end, his work stresses the third section of the hymn "do not let us and future generations perish." The Czech String Quartet, in which Suk played second violin, premiered the work in 1914 and performed it in nearly every concert given for the duration of the war. The Meditation on an Old Czech Hymn "St. Wenceslas" opens, slowly and pensively, with overlapping entries of the hymn in the different instruments. The music deliberately and purposefully builds to an enormous climax that implores God's deliverance, then finds solace in ineffable tranquility. Suk also made transcriptions of the piece for piano and for string orchestra. The latter became a musical rallying cry for the Czech nation before and during the German occupation of the country during World War II.