Prague Concert Life, 1850-1881

Event title:

Celebration of mass

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

Event type: Church music events

Date: 30/03/1862

Season: Lent

Programme comprising:

General participants:
  • St Francis's Church [Kostel svatého Františka]: participating institution, vv
TŮMA, František Ignác : unspecified Mass, vv, [orch / org?], D minor
HAYDN, Michael : unspecified graduale or offertorium, vv, [orch / org?]
NAUMANN, ? : unspecified graduale or offertorium, vv, [org / orch?]

Commentary:

Prager Morgenpost 29/3/1862 reported that ‘Tomorrow, on the fourth Sunday in Lent will be performed in the Church of the Hospitalers Tuma’s [Tůma] Mass in D minor, with interpolations by M. Haydn and by Naumann.

Dalibor 10/4/1862 included a brief record of this event, noting ‘Tuma’sm [Tůma] fine Mass in D minor wa’s performed on Sunday 30th March in the Church of the Knights of the Cross [St Francis]’

No details of this event were published by the periodicals Národní listy or Bohemia. The composer Raumann cannot be identified.


Summary of sources:

Prager Morgenpost (29/03/1862)
Dalibor, časopis pro hudbu, divadlo a umění vůbec (10/04/1862)