21st Workshop of the Czech Handel Society

Thursday 30 November 2017 at 6.00 pm.

Classroom No. 19 at ‘Vyšší odborná škola oděvního návrhářství a Střední průmyslová škola oděvní’ (Vocational High School for Clothing Design and Secondary Technical School for Clothing), Jablonského 3/333, Prague 7 – Holešovice, Czech Republic, close to the underground station ‘Nádraží Holešovice’ (line ‘C’).

Admission free.

Snacks & drinks available in vending machines on the premises of the School.

Programme:

Church Music and Musicians at Duchcov
(Dux; North Bohemia, Czech Republic)
and in Close Vicinity in the Baroque Era

The lecture will be given by Bc. Milan Černý, dipl.um., lutenist and music scholar.

Duchcov (Dux), North Bohemia, Czech Republic. Roman Catholic Parish Church of the Annunciation of Our Lady. At the distance, buildings of the stately home. The church, burnt by the Soviet troops on 9 May 1945, was being built in the present form from the very close of the 17th century to 1721, under Ernst Joseph of Wallenstein (1654–1708) and Johann Joseph of Wallenstein (1684–1731), to the plans by Marc Antonio (Marcantonio) Canevalle (1652–1711) and Franz Maximilian Kaňka (1674–1766). Consecrated in 1722.

Further information at ‘info@haendel.cz’.