Josef Suk (1874-1935), the pupil and son-in-law of the composer Antonin Dvorak and a protagonist of the Czech Modernism in music, in 1919 entered his composition V novy zivot (Towards a New Life), subtitled Festive Sokol March for Large Orchestra, Op. 35c, in the competition organised on the occasion of the 7th Sokol Rally.The march, entered in the competition under the pseudonym of Jan Emanuel Skrysovsky, won and was first performed at the rally’s opening on June 27, 1920. Corresponding to the ...