On the Trail of Dvořák
The Festival’s traditional opening event completes the circle in Prague – the city where Antonín Dvořák lived, composed and taught his successors for many years.
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About the programme
Antonín Dvořák lived in many parts of Prague’s Old and New Towns. It was here that he married, had his children baptised, played in the orchestra of the Provisional Theatre and conducted the first concert of the Czech Philharmonic at the Rudolfinum. Dvořák’s life was interwoven with Prague in countless personal and artistic ways. British musicologist David Beveridge will serve as a knowledgeable guide as we follow Dvořák’s footsteps through Prague.
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Theatrical performance
Workshops
Koncerty
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As part of the traditional festival ouverture, On the Trail of Antonín Dvořák, we will visit the Baroque Church of St Ignatius in Charles Square in Prague. Dvořák attended mass here almost every morning, and the church has another distinctly “Dvořákian” connection: it boasts an excellent organ from the renowned organ maker Emanuel Štěpán Petr, from whom Dvořák commissioned an organ as a gift for the church in Třebsko, near his summer residence in Vysoká. The programme will feature organ and choral works by both Dvořák and his contemporaries – his teachers, colleagues and friends in Prague. The proverbial icing on the cake will be the magnificent Prelude in A Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach, the most celebrated organist of all time. Dvořák, at age 17, played this very piece for his graduation examination at Prague’s Organ School.
Artists
Pavel Svoboda (organ)
members of the Prague Chamber Choir
Lenka Navrátilová (choirmaster)
Concert programme:
Josef Leopold Zvonař: Přes vršiny
Karel Bendl: Zdráva buď, máti milosrdenství
Antonín Dvořák: Preludia a fugy, B. 302
– Preludium D dur
– Fuga g moll
Johann Sebastian Bach: Preludium a moll, BWV 543/1
Franz Liszt: Preludium a fuga na jméno B-A-C-H, S. 260
Franz Xaver Witt: Pange lingua
Josef Förster:
– O salutaris hostia
– harmonizace chorálu Pange lingua
Josef Bohuslav Foerster:
– Pange lingua
– Offertoria in Dominicis Quadragesimae (Dominica I., Dominica II.)
Alois Göbl: Zdrávas Maria
Zdeněk Fibich: Missa Brevis, op. 21
– Sanctus, Osanna
– Benedictus, Osanna
– Agnus Dei
Antonín Dvořák: Mše D dur, „Lužanská“, op. 86, B. 153
– Gloria
Photo gallery
Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola
Church of St.Ignatius of Loyola, on the corner of Charles Square and Ječná Street, is astriking Early Baroque landmark closely associated with the Jesuits and one ofthe dominant features of Prague’s New Town. Built in the second half of the 17th century as part of an extensive Jesuit college, now the site of the General University Hospital, it still impresses with its richly decorated façade and statue of St. Ignatius. The entire complex is protected as acultural monument.