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Event title:

Visit of the Empress Marie Anna to the [Seminary] Institute for the Blind at Hradčany [Strahov], with music performed by pupils of the Institute.

Venue: Seminary Institute for the Blind

Event type: Art music culture

Date: 20/11/1858

Keywords: Geography, Czech partisanship in, State-associated events and occasions, Private and exclusive performance events, Monarchy and Aristocracy, Disability in society, Genres - Secular choral music, Education - major institutions, Children in musical events

Programme including:

General participants:

Seminary Institute for the Blind: pupil(s) of institute, vv

UNSPECIFIED, ? : unspecified piano works, pf
• unspecified, ? : pf

HAYDN, Franz Joseph : Austrian national hymn [anthem], vv

UNSPECIFIED, ? : chorus Píseň nevidomců (Song of the Blind), vv
• pupils of the Prague Seminary Institute for the Blind: chorus

UNSPECIFIED, ? : song Ach radost! (Oh joy!), v
• pupils of the Prague Seminary Institute for the Blind: chorus

Commentary:

The Lumír text described how on this Saturday visit the Empress Marie Anna was welcomed into the Institute for the Blind by the pupils, boys and girls, singing the national hymn. ‘The pupils were then examined in religious studies and then in geography, in which a moulded [vypouklý - lit. ‘bulging’ i.e. shaped to be tactile] map served very well .... One of the pupils proved his ability on the piano and all then sang in the chorus Píseň nevidomc ... on the departure [of the Empress] they began to sing the Czech song “Ach radost!” - The Empress returned until they had finished [singing].’

Summary of sources:

Lumír (25/11/1858)