Otakar Ševčík (1852-1934) was a famous Czech concert violinist and violin teacher, who is renowned for being one of the founding fathers of the modern violin technique. Browse our sheet music and scores, and explore the wide world of Otakar Ševčík with Stretta Music today!
Otakar Ševčík was born into a humble family of church cantors. His father introduced him to music as a boy, teaching the young Otakar the basics of singing, piano and violin. After graduating from the Prague Conservatoire, he enjoyed a career as a highly sought-after solo violinist, and from 1870 he also worked as a violin professor, teaching at the Mozarteum Graz, the Prague Conservatoire, the Kiev Conservatoire and the Vienna Academy for Music and Performing Arts. In the 1920s, he also taught in the USA, in Ithaca, Chicago and New York.
The Ševčík method brought new, unprecedented and innovative ideas to the world of violin technique, the semitone system for beginners, systematic, step-by-step solutions to technical problems, detailed intonation exercises, analytical studies of concertos, and much more. His method is so versatile, that it can be used for all stringed instruments. Ševčík’s pedagogical work is divided into 26 volumes.
String Solo
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 316385
LKM Music
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 884716
Violinschule für Anfänger - Méthode de violon pour les commençants
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 199385
String Solo
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 316329
Sudien und Übungen
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 940193
Set Vol. I and II
for: Violin
2 music scores
Item no.: 1011293
Eine Anleitung zum Studium
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 485787
Sections III and IV
for: Cello
Music lesson book
Item no.: 681877
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 560688
Heft 1
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 695311
Sevcik Cello Studies
for: Cello
Music lesson book
Item no.: 199412
Escuela del mecanismo del arco
Ejercicios preparatorios para el ritmo y la división del arco
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 249207
Violinschule mit Doppelgriff-Vorstudien, mit Klavierbegleitung
Sevcik Violin Studies (Technik) (Technique)
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 199442
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 371137