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Event title:

Celebration of Mass for the Feast of the Cross [Inventio sanctae crucis]

Venue: St Francis's Church [Kostel svatého Františka]

Event type: Church music events

Date: 03/05/1857

Season: Summer

Keywords: Ecclesiastical / Religious events, Festival and celebratory events, Genres - Church music, Public performance events

Programme comprising:

General participants:

St Francis's Church [Kostel svatého Františka]: participating institution, vv
KREJČÍ, Josef: director of ensemble

FÜHRER, Robert Jan Nepomuk : unspecified Mass, [solo vv, chorus, orch / org?]

UNSPECIFIED, ? : unspecified hymnus, vv, [orch / org?], G major

KREJČÍ, Josef : motet, D major

Commentary:

News of this event was published by Bohemia 2/5/1857 in a report noting: ‘On the Festival of the Cross [‘Kreuzerfindung’ – Inventio sanctae crucis], which will be celebrated on Sunday 3rd May in the Church of the Knights of the Cross at 9am, is to be performed Führer’s great Mass in D minor; as interpolations for the graduale a Hymnus in G major and as offertorium the great Motet in D major by Krejčí dedicated to the great Mendelssohn Bartholdy.’

Directing this event would almost certainly have been Josef Krejčí, at this time Kapellmeister at the Knights of the Cross Church (St Francis).

Summary of sources:

Bohemia (02/05/1857)