Venue: St Raphael's Chapel [Kaple svatého Rafaela]
Event type: Church music events
Date: 24/04/1854 8am
Tagesbote aus Böhmen 25/4/1854 published news that ‘In the Seminary Institute for the Blind on Hradschin [Hradčany] was celebrated yesterday a solemn religious service, after which a Te Deum was sung and the new national anthem performed. At noon a banquet was given by the Institute’s Director von Ottenkron for pupils and personnel.’ No further details about the event were given by the source.
Mercy’s Anzeiger 27/4/1854 reported that ‘In St Raphael’s Church [chapel] the Seminary Institute for Adult Blind gave on 24th April for the wedding day of the Austrian monarch at 8am a celebratory religious service with a Te Deum, and in which the blind pensioners performed with astonishing accuracy a Requiem with organ accompaniment by M. Haydn.’ In the aftermoon, following Vespers at 3pm, the blind members of the Institute processed into the garden where two ceremonial trees were planted [Kaiserbäume]. After this the national anthem was sung.’