English Translation

The performance of German concert events: men, such as Karl Muck, and the still living opera composer Emil Nikolaus von Recniczek took their way from here. The organs installed in the large concert hall were taken over by Anton Bruckner, the greatest composer of those days. As a home for the Prague Conservatory, one of the oldest German music education institutions of this kind, founded in 1911 by the Association for the Promotion of Sound Art in Bohemia. The exhibition and collection of the works of art of the "Society of Patriotic Art Friends" founded in 1796. In 1918, in October, immediately after the founding of the former Czechoslovak Republic, the "Society for the Promotion of Sound Art" was forced to dissolve. The "Prague Conservatory" was czechized and taken over by the state. Also the "society of patriotic art friends" had to leave the house with its art collections. In 1919, in April, the Rudolfinum was confiscated and designated as the House of Deputies. On 26 May 1920, the first session of the Czech Parliament took place. 1921, on 15 December, the "Bohemian Savings Bank" had to sell the building to the Czech state. The large concert hall was converted into a House of deputies, the organ there came to the station hall in Brno. The table of the organ where an Anton Bruckner had sat was smashed with the axe to give way to a bust of Masaryk. In 1938 the last session of the Parliament took place on 16 December. And today we are solemnly united to consecrate this site of German art for good. At this moment, I am linking the commitments: 60