English Translation

9.f / I am pleased to welcome the performance of the Richard Wagner celebration in Prague to commemorate the work of Richard Wagner 80 years ago in this city so open to his art. May this celebration be an expression of the intimate bond of the German art community in Prague with Wagner's works for all the future! Wifrway RICHARD WAGNER IN PRAG "Indescribable was my joy at the sight of Prague, and for a long time the visit of Bohemia and especially of Prague has exerted a completely poetic magic on me ... Above all, the ancient splendour and beauty of the incomparable city made an indelible impression on my imagination ... the re-sounding confession of the mature master may be put to the side the stormy and intrusive word that Richard Wagner, who had barely grown up for the boy years, had almost ecstatically written down: "When I looked back on Prague from the same hill on the return journey, I was bursting into tears, threw myself to the