Fairy Tale (Suk)

16 (Fairy Tale) is an orchestral suite from incidental music composed for Julius Zeyer's mythological drama Radúz and Mahulena by Josef Suk in 1897–1898.

Because the chance of the play receiving regular staging was small, Suk decided to turn most of the music into a four-movement orchestral suite.

Suk began to work on the suite on 2 September 1899 at his home in Křečovice and completed the first two movements by the end of the month.

Because of his extensive touring with Bohemian Quartet he didn't start to work on the third movement until 12 February the next year in Amsterdam.

He completed the work back in Křečovice on 9 June 1900, dedicating it to Zdeňka Hlávková, wife of the architect and philanthropist Josef Hlávka.