English Translation

25-4 The German Music Society now wants to perceive what it has promised in its appeal to the German music friends of Prague. It wants to enter into a lively relationship with the German population of Prague, in line with the venerable tradition of this city in music weeks, presenting the creation of eternal German masters of music before the soul of our German people. It thus wants to bear witness and confession; witness to the probably greatest artistic achievement of our people, to the music that no other people has of equal size and to convey a commitment to the proud and sacred striving to present this greatest German art, to all people who are capable of experiencing music. For this German music is present-day and alive in all its masters, they may have created so long ago. However, this requires the help of the German music friends and, in particular, the members of the Deutsche Musikgesellschaft. They are to all the people because the program of the music weeks is so extensive that there can be everyone what he seeks and desires. One will have the opportunity to understand again the deep mysterious language of serious music, which proclaims to him his innermost soulness, and thus to gain deepest inner values; the other will be given hours of true and pure joy in which he can strip off what otherwise oppresses him. But to all, contributors and listeners, new strength and new confidence are to emerge from these weeks in this decisive struggle of our German people for existence and future. From this the event of such weeks justifies itself, even it gains its true political significance. Dr. von Burgsdorff Chairman of the "German Music Society"