Prague, other districts

In this street were the hotels 'Zum schwarzen Roß' (čp. 860), where Paganini, Chopin, Glinka, Wagner and Grieg stayed, and 'Zum blauen Stern' (čp. 864), where Chopin, Liszt, Berlioz and Mahler stayed; both have been demolished. There is a plaque at the National Bank (around the corner) in the honour of Chopin.

Liszt stayed in the hotel 'Sachsischer Hof' in 1857 and Tchaikovsky stayed here in 1888 as the conductor of Evgeny Onegin and the Fifth Symphony. The original building was demolished.

Public opera performances, initiated by the counts Losy z Losinthalu and Sporck, were given in this palace from 1724 until the middle of the 19^th century. From 1950 it housed a Lenin museum, since 1990 the headquarters of the Social Democratic Party.

Birthplace of the composer Karel Bendl, °1838.

Weber married in 1817 with Caroline Brand in the church of St. Henry.

Mahler and Zemlinsky worked as conductors in the former 'Deutsches Theater'. After the 2^nd World War it was called ‘Smetana theatre’ and became the platform of the State Opera.

The composer Erwin Schulhoff lived here after his return to Prague in 1923.

The A.B.C. theatre was particularly famous during the years 1929-38 as the Osvobozené Divadlo, when Voskovec & Werich staged revues with music by Jaroslav Ježek and Emil František Burian.

The plaque of Emil Burian near the entrance of the former 'Mozarteum' has been removed and the best music and record shop of Prague ('Panton') in the same building closed its doors. Only the offices of the recording company 'Supraphon' on the upper storeys are still there (entrance in Palackého street).

House of Dvořák from 1877 until †1904, with a bust at the façade and a memorial tablet for Tchaikovsky, who visited the house in 1888 and '92. Pupil and son-in-law Josef Suk lived here for some time and so did Janáček in 1883, taking care of the house during Dvořák's absence; in the same year Dvořák and Janáček made a trip through Bohemia together. (House during verification in 2010 in bad condition.)

In Štěpánská street nr. 50, Janáček lived during his studies in 1874; in Na Rybničku street nr. 14, Dvořák lived until 1877. Both houses have been demolished.

Smetana (1849, first wife), Dvořák (1873) and Suk (1898) all married in the St Stephen's church, the latter with Dvořák's daughter Otilie.

Mahler sat for his final exam in 1877 in this former German Gymnasium and also Max Brod studied here.

Birthplace of the singer Emmy Destinn/Ema Destinov&aacute (1878-1930).

Organ by M. Janeček, 1741, 2 man., 16 stops, undivided front; the church with the 'Prague minaret' belonged to the hospital (> next item).

Smetana died in this hospital in 1884 (room 172, now III.9 in the third department of psychiatric day-care); in the same room the composer Vilém Blodek had died in 1774. A Smetana plaque was placed within the room but in the 1990s it was moved into the corridor.

The baroque summer palace from 1720, also called 'Vila Amerika', today holds the Dvořák museum; with small concert hall.

Fine organ by B. Semrád, 1733,II/p/16.

Bust of Janáček, who studied in Prague (1874-5).

Prague house of the composer Josef Suk (1874-1935).

House of the composer Vitěslav Novák from 1915 until his death in 1949.

The Hlahol was an organization of amateur choirs and bands; Smetana (1863), Karel Bendl (1865-77) and Karel Knittl (1877-1903) worked here. Commemorative plaques for all of them.

Plaque of František Škroup, who wrote Kde domov můj – the present Czech national anthem – here in 1834; the house was rebuilt, the plaque is nearly illegible.

House of the young Bohuslav Foerster.

Foerster Hall, a small concert hall in the presbytery of St. Adalbert’s church with Foerster memorial room.

Dvořák was organist in this church from 1873 to 1882 and was succeeded by Foerster (until 1888).

In a nice concert hall on the 'Sophieninsel' many great musicians appeared, including Berlioz and Liszt. In the rebuilt ballroom of today are performances by the national folklore group.

The National Theatre is the finest opera theatre of Prague, built 1868-81 and inaugurated with Libuše by Smetana. It burnt down two months later and reopened in 1883, again with Libuše. After the last great restoration it reopened in 1983 with, of course, Libuše. The theatre specializes in first rate performances of Czech opera.

The house where Zdeněk Fibich lived from 1875 to 1895 was demolished for an extension of the National opera (c 1981).

A prominent jazz club, established in the 1950s. Václav Havel was a frequent visitor and USA president Bill Clinton played here in 1994 (recorded on CD).

In this cemetary of celebrities ─ incl. the painter Mucha and the writer Čapek ─ are the graves of the composers Dvořák (in gallery), Smetana, Fibich and Ostrčil and of the musicians Jan and Rafael Kubelik.

The conductor Václav Talich lived here from 1918 until his death in 1961.

Villa of Bohuslav Foerster; he had it built in 1938 and lived here until his dead in 1951. Outside unchanged.

Graves of Vilém Blodek, Alexander Dreyschock and Smetana's wife and children.

The second conservatory of Prague advertises itself as 'international', but its website (konservatorpraha.eu) is only in Czech...

Renowned new concert hall.

Monument (by S.Sucharda 1916) of Karel Bendl (1838-1897), the composer of popular choral works and songs, besides of now forgotten operas and a fine string quartet.

Last house of the quarter tone composer Alois Hába (893-1973).