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.
Sevcik Violin Studies
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 199441
Sevcik Cello Studies
for: Cello
Music lesson book
Item no.: 199411
String Solo
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 316327
Sudien und Übungen
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 937988
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 249270
for: Cello
Music lesson book
Item no.: 681841
Sevcik Cello Studies
for: Cello
Music lesson book
Item no.: 199415
Otakar Sevcik: Violin Studies
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 290436
Exercises for the Wrist II
Book 3
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 104064
Heft 2
2.-7. Lage
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 620954
Otakar Sevcik: Violin Studies
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 312055
Sevcik Viola Studies
for: Viola
Music lesson book
Item no.: 199717
Sevcik Violin Studies
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 199396
Sevcik Violin Studies
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 199395
The Original Sevcik Violin Studies
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 135977
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 973080
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 635981
Otakar Sevcik: Violin Studies
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 265679
String Solo
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 316414
Sudien und Übungen
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 939758
Sudien und Übungen
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 942146
with Ševčík Analytical Studies
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 693350
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 249413
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 973149
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 1006450
Changes of Position
Sevcik Viola Studies
for: Viola
Music score
Item no.: 199716
The Original Sevcik Violin Studies
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 177069
for violin and piano (with analytical studies and exercises by Sevcik)
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 611993
Sudien und Übungen
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 940285
method
for: Cello
Music lesson book
Item no.: 199413
Sudien und Übungen
Single part Violin
Item no.: 898855
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 560688
Sevcik Violin Studies
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 199390
Sevcik Violin Studies
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 326889
and Preparatory Scale Studies, Op. 8
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 316330
Sevcik Viola Studies
for: Viola
Music score
Item no.: 199715
String Solo
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 316331
String Solo
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 316328
Violin Concerto E Minor op. 21
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 611991
Sevcik Violin Studies
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 199386
Sevcik Violin Studies (Lehrmaterial, Technik) (Teaching material, Technique)
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 217495
Eine Anleitung zum Studium
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 485787
Opus 3
for Violin
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 684556
in the first position
for: Viola
Music score
Item no.: 177558
für Violine
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 640780
in the 2.-6. position
Sevcik Viola Studies
for: Viola
Music score
Item no.: 177559
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 249739
Fascicolo II.
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 257447