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.
for: Cello
Music lesson book
Item no.: 199409
Complete Edition (Parts I-IV)
Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 607291
Doppelgriff-Vorstudien. Unterrichtswerk für Viola
Sevcik Violin Studies (Technik) (Technique)
for: Viola
Music score
Item no.: 199915
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 199441
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 635981
Sevcik Violin Studies
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 326889
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 199390
for: Viola
Music score
Item no.: 199721
for: Cello
Music lesson book
Item no.: 199408
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 684556
in the first position
for: Viola
Music score
Item no.: 177558
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 257446
for: Cello
Music lesson book
Item no.: 681876
for: Viola
Music lesson book
Item no.: 199718
for: Cello
Music lesson book
Item no.: 681841
for: Cello
Music lesson book
Item no.: 199415
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 290436
Exercises in the First Position
Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 316326
for: Viola
Music score
Item no.: 199714
for: Cello
Music score
Item no.: 199416
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 199389
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 168621
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 633516
Changes of position and preparatory scale studies
Sevcik Violin Studies
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 199371
Changes of Position
Sevcik Viola Studies
for: Viola
Music score
Item no.: 199716
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 177069
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 257447
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 316330
for: Viola
Music score
Item no.: 199715
for: Double bass
Music score
Item no.: 182056
for: Viola
Music score
Item no.: 199720
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 316327
for: Cello
Music lesson book
Item no.: 199411
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 316414
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 265679
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 199387
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 611991
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 316328
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 316331
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 199386
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 199388
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 199379
Übungen für den rechten Arm
Heft 1
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 104059
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 640780
in the 2.-6. position
Sevcik Viola Studies
for: Viola
Music score
Item no.: 177559
Übungen mit Doppelgriffen und Flageolett-Tönen
Heft 4 (Lehrmaterial) (Teaching material)
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 623440
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 316386
Exercices for the Wrist 1
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 552271