Suk: Four Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op. 17Josef Suk (18241935) was a bit in the shadow of the two famous Czech composers Antonn Dvok and Bedch Smetana. This affected Suk especially because Dvok was also his father in law, a fact that made his artistic emancipation all the more difficult. After Dvok's death, however, he rapidly succeeded in finding his own musical language and in going his way as a musician. Josef Suk, like his recently deceased grandson of the same name, was also a violinist,