Václav Suk

Concurrently he studied also counterpoint with Josef Krejčí, and, privately, composition with Zdeněk Fibich.

Tchaikovsky recommended him to Saint Petersburg,[4] but Suk went to Taganrog instead,[5] where he began to also conduct symphonic works.

His later employment with a private opera orchestra in Vilnius lasted from 1890 to 1894, and this was followed by guest performances or shorter engagements in many of the larger places in Russia, e.g. in Kharkiv, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Kazan, and Saratov.

After the Revolution he was commissioned with the organization of the Moscow Philharmonic Concerts, and in 1923 he was given the honour of conducting a special production at the Bolshoi of Richard Wagner's Lohengrin on the dual occasion of the 40th anniversary of the composer's death and of the 25-year stage jubilee of the famous Lohengrin-singer Leonid Sobinov.

[7] Suk, who had a reputation of being an authentic interpreter of Tchaikovsky's music and of Rimsky-Korsakov's operas, some of which he premiered,[8] was awarded many more honours during his Russian career.