Otakar Ševčík Škola smyčcové techniky pro violoncello op. 2, sešit I a II

Otakar Ševčík Škola smyčcové techniky pro violoncello op. 2, sešit I a II

Type of publication: pedagogical music
For: cello - solo
Publication language: cz./eng./ger.

Edited by Tomáš Jamník

a key work of violin pedagogical literature for the right hand in a new arrangement for cello
preface and important methodological comments by the author of the cello arrangement
increasing level of technical difficulty of individual exercises: easy - medium - difficult
the original 6 notebooks now in a practical three-volume edition

Ševčík's Opus 2 is one of the key works of violin pedagogical literature. It focuses on the basic problems of the right hand technique, which Ševčík practices in systematically arranged 4,000 variants of all skids. Ševčík's famous method of thorough practice of the right hand is still used and appreciated by players of other string instruments.

The author of the adaptation of the School of String Techniques for Cello Tomáš Jamník, a prominent Czech cellist living in Berlin, respects the differences in the difficulty of playing in individual positions for violinists and cellists and transcribes individual exercises into cello positions so that Ševčík's original pedagogical intention is not lost. This is fundamentally different from the only known adaptation of this cello opus by Louis R. Feuillard.