# Josef Chuchro > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Josef_Chuchro > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Josef_Chuchro.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Chuchro > Source revision: 1330654367 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Czech music educator, violoncellist and university educator (1931–2009)}} '''Josef Chuchro''' (3 July 1931 – 19 August 2009) was a Czech [cellist](/source/cellist). ==Life and career== Josef Chuchro was born on 3 July 1931 in [Prague](/source/Prague).{{cite web |title=Chuchro, Josef (1931–2009) forme internationale |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb138925011 |website=catalogue.bnf.fr |access-date=26 October 2025}} His father Josef Chuchro senior (1903–1975), who was an [organist](/source/organist), provided him with the basics of musical education. He studied at the [Prague Conservatory](/source/Prague_Conservatory) and the [Academy of Performing Arts in Prague](/source/Academy_of_Performing_Arts_in_Prague) with Prof. [Karel Pravoslav Sádlo](/source/Karel_Pravoslav_S%C3%A1dlo), and went on to teach, becoming, from 1990 to 1997, Dean of the Academy of Performing Arts.{{cite web |title=Chuchro, Josef - Charakteristika: Violoncellista a pedagog |trans-title=Chuchro, Josef - Characteristics: Cellist and teacher |url=https://slovnik.ceskyhudebnislovnik.cz/component/mdictionary/?task=record.record_print&tmpl=component&id=3988 |work=Český hudební slovník osob a institucí (Czech musical dictionary of persons and institutions) |language=cs|access-date=27 October 2025}}{{cite web |title=Zemřel prof. Josef Chuchro |trans-title=Prof. Josef Chuchro has died. |url=https://www.casopisharmonie.cz/aktuality/zemrel-prof-josef-chuchro/ |website=Časopis Harmonie |access-date=27 October 2025 |language=cs |date=22 September 2009}} Among his students were: [Jiří Bárta](/source/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_B%C3%A1rta), [:cs:Mikael Ericsson](/source/%3Acs%3AMikael_Ericsson), and {{ill|Tomáš Jamník|cs}}.{{cite web |title=Teacher: Josef Chuchro |via=Wayback Machine |url=http://www.cellist.nl/?id=2632 |website=www.cellist.nl |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150627114014/http://www.cellist.nl/?id=2632 |access-date=27 October 2025 |archive-date=27 June 2015 }} He was awarded first prize in the Prague Spring Festival of 1955, and first prize in the Casals second International Cello Contest of 1959, held in Mexico.{{cite journal |last1=Farrell |first1=Peter |last2=Rowell |first2=Margaret |title=Pablo Casals Second International Cello Contest |url=https://doi.org/10.1177/000313135900900210 |journal=American String Teacher |access-date=27 October 2025 |pages=8–12 |language=EN |doi=10.1177/000313135900900210 |date=1 May 1959 |volume=9 |issue=2 |url-access=subscription }} He was a member of the [Suk Trio](/source/Suk_Trio) (in which he replaced the founding cellist, [Saša Večtomov](/source/Sa%C5%A1a_Ve%C4%8Dtomov)), from 1952, and the Prague Cello Duo (founded in 1979 with his son Jan).{{cn|date=October 2025}} In 1961, he was appointed soloist of the [Czech Philharmonic](/source/Czech_Philharmonic). Chuchro died on 19 August 2009 in Prague.{{cite web|url=https://aleph.nkp.cz/F/53M3Q5PL7G69KF3IQHNGCDAFBLU4J8UET7FI85R9DU9YKSAI7H-43262?func=find-b&find_code=WRD&x=18&y=10&request=Josef+Chuchro&filter_code_1=WTP&filter_request_1=&adjacent=N |title=Výsledky dotazu: Slova-Autoři/Korp.=Josef Chuchro |trans-title=Results for: Words-All fields= Josef Chuchro |website=Souborný katalog České republiky (Union Catalog of the Czech Republic)}}{{Cite web |title=Hudební fakulta AMU – životopis |trans-title=Faculty of Music, AMU – biography |url=http://www.hamu.cz/katedry/katedra-strunnych-nastroju/chuchro-josef |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090610071831/http://www.hamu.cz/katedry/katedra-strunnych-nastroju/chuchro-josef |archive-date=2009-06-10 |access-date=2025-10-27 |website=www.hamu.cz |language=cs}} ==Recordings== The complete recording of Beethoven's sonatas and variations for cello and piano performed by Josef Chuchro and [Jan Panenka](/source/Jan_Panenka) received an Award of Merit.{{clarify|reason=Which award/ from whom? Ref archived 2012-01-11|date=October 2025}} Josef Chuchro recorded 38 solo gramophone records, 9 of them with the Czech Philharmonic, and among the recordings 40 [chamber music](/source/chamber_music) compositions.{{Cite web |title=Josef Chuchro {{!}} jubileum |trans-title=Žižkov (festival) performer profiles: Josef Chuchro jubilee |website=Životopis na webu Žižkov.cz |url=http://www.zizkov.cz/clanek.asp?id=74 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111054130/http://www.zizkov.cz/clanek.asp?id=74 |archive-date=2012-01-11 |access-date=2025-10-27 }} ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *[https://www.discogs.com/artist/835213-Josef-Chuchro Recordings by Chuchro listed] at discogs.org *[https://ndk.cz/search?q=Josef%20Chuchro Entries for Chuchro at the Czech National Digital Library] *[https://beliana.sav.sk/heslo/chuchro-josef Entry for Chuchro in the Encyclopedia Beliana] (Centre of Joint Activities of the Slovak Academy of Sciences) {{DEFAULTSORT:Chuchro, Josef}} Category:1931 births Category:2009 deaths Category:Musicians from Prague Category:Czech classical cellists Category:20th-century Czech male musicians Category:Academy of Performing Arts in Prague alumni Category:Prague Conservatory alumni Category:Recipients of the Medal of Merit (Czech Republic) {{Cello-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Josef Chuchro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Chuchro) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Chuchro?action=history)). 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