Karl Suske
Karl Johann Suske (born March 15, 1934 in Reichenberg , Czechoslovakia ) is a German violinist . During his more than forty-year musical career, Suske was, among other things, first concertmaster of the Staatskapelle Berlin , the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and the Festival Orchestra Bayreuth . He was also a member of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Quartet and founder of a quartet named after him in Berlin . Suske held professorships at the music academies in Weimar and Leipzig until 1990 .
Life
Karl Suske received violin lessons from his father Franz Suske, who played second violins in the Reichenberg Municipal Orchestra. After the end of the Second World War and expulsion from the Sudetenland , the family settled in Greiz , Thuringia , where Suske resumed his violin lessons. In 1947 he became a student of the Weimar university professor and violinist Gerhard Bosse , who grew up in Greiz, and he followed him after moving to Leipzig in 1951 , where Bosse worked as violin professor and first concertmaster of the radio symphony orchestra . After graduating in 1954, Suske first became solo violist and later concert master at the Leipzig Gewandhaus. In 1962 he became first concertmaster at the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden, from where he returned to Leipzig in 1977 at the endeavors of Kurt Masur as first concertmaster of the Gewandhaus Orchestra. He stayed in this position until his retirement in 2001. At the same time, Suske was first concertmaster of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra nine times from 1991 to 2000, and he was invited several times as a guest concertmaster by the NHK Tokyo Symphony Orchestra .
Chamber music work
In 1951, Suske was accepted by his teacher Gerhard Bosse as second violinist in his newly founded string quartet. In 1955 he also became second violinist in the traditional Leipzig Gewandhaus Quartet . After moving to Berlin in 1965, he founded the Suske Quartet, which was initially named after him (later the Berlin String Quartet), which played an important role in the chamber music life of the GDR and with which he made guest appearances in Europe, the USA and Japan. In 1970 the quartet - in addition to Suske, consisting of Klaus Peters (Vl), Karl-Heinz Dommus (Va) and Matthias Pfaender (Cl) - "for its part in the masterful interpretation of works of the national cultural heritage and the socialist music of the GDR" the National Prize of the GDR III. Excellent class for art and literature. The completion of a complete recording of the Beethoven string quartets for the Eterna record label in 1980 also marked the end of this ensemble, as Suske returned to Leipzig and became a member of the Gewandhaus Quartet, of which he remained principal violinist until 1993.
family
Karl Suske is married and lives in Leipzig. He has four grown children. His daughter Cornelia Smaczny is a harpist in the Gewandhaus Orchestra, and his son Conrad is the deputy concertmaster there. Conrad Zuske was also a member of the Gewandhaus Quartet.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.gewandhausorchester.de/orchester Overview of the Gewandhaus Orchestra
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Suske, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Suske, Karl Johann (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German violinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reichenberg , Czechoslovakia |