Zdenek Sádecký

Zdeněk Sádecký (Dvůr Králové nad Labem, 2 June 1925 - Prague, 28 December 1971) was a Czech musicologist. Having received a doctorate in 1951 with the essay "Boj za demokratickou piseň v obrození" ("The struggle for democratic song in the Czech revival"), his early work focused on defining Czech musical socialist realism. With its decline in the late fifties he drew his attention to the main Czech composers. He is reputed as one of the most prominent scholars of Josef Suk (composer)'s musical aesthetic.