Prague Concert Life, 1850-1881

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Event title:

Celebration of mass given for the Prague Society of Catholic Apprentices on the day of its patron St Joseph

Venue: St Josef's Church

Event type: Church music events

Date: 15/03/1857 8am

Season: Lent

Keywords: Annual events and regular series, Ecclesiastical / Religious events, Festival and celebratory events, Genres - Church music, Public performance events, Monarchy and Aristocracy

Programme including:

General participants:
  • Society of Catholic Apprentices: participating institution
ŠKROUP, Jan Nepomuk : unspecified Mass Volksmesse, [solo vv, chorus, orch/org]

Commentary:

News of this event was published by Mercy’s Anzeiger 14/3/1857. The source reported that ‘Sunday 15th March at 8am the Prague Catholic Apprentices-Society [Prager katholischen Gesellen-Verein] gives for its benefactors on the festival of its patron St Joseph in the Capucin Church of St Joseph in the New Town a celebratory Mass, in which thanks will be given to Her Majesty the Empress Maria Anna for the most gracious gift of the Society-banner, and a Mass [Volksmesse] by the Cathedral [St Vitus] Kapellmeister Mr Johann Skraup [J.N. Škroup] will be sung.’ 


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