Name: Prague Castle International organ festival - in St. Vitus Cathedral - Klička - Janáček - Eben
Start: 2026-08-18T19:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-08-18T20:10:00+02:00
Location: Prague Castle - St. Vitus Cathedral

Prague Castle International organ festival - in St. Vitus Cathedral

Date:	August 18, 2026 \| 19:00 (Tue)
Venue:	Prague Castle - St. Vitus Cathedral
Duration:	70 minutes
Intermission:	No
Status:	Available

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Jaroslav Tůma plays Czech organ masterworks at Prague Castle

Program:

Josef Klička | Concert Fantasy on the Chorale “Saint Wenceslas”
Leoš Janáček | Organ Solo from the Glagolitic Mass
Jaroslav Tůma | Angelic Friendship on a Theme by Adam Václav Michna, from the collection Czech Lute
Petr Eben | Sunday Music:
Fantasia I
Fantasia II
Moto ostinato
Finale

Performing:

Jaroslav Tůma - organ

Jaroslav Tůma is a Czech organist, harpsichordist, and teacher, professor at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, and has won prizes at competitions in Haarlem, Leipzig, and Linz. He performs worldwide, and his discography comprises more than sixty CDs. As titular organist at Svatá Hora in Příbram, he has recorded the complete organ works of J. S. Bach and, through a range of audiovisual projects, has helped to popularise music. As a composer and author of various publications, he consistently combines artistic precision with his own distinctive voice.

About the festival:

St. Vitus Organ Evenings is a unique summer festival that offers you the opportunity to listen to masterpieces of organ music right in the heart of the Cathedral of Saints Vitus, Wenceslaus, and Adalbert at Prague Castle. Each year, the festival invites leading organists from both the Czech Republic and abroad to perform at the cathedral. This year will be no exception, as we welcome performers from the USA, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, and the Czech Republic.

The program will be further enriched by a concert featuring a symphony orchestra and a special evening with a guest soloist on the French horn. A true celebration of organ music awaits. The 15th edition will be extraordinary in many respects. For the first time, the festival will feature the new and long-awaited cathedral organ. Additionally, visitors can look forward to a double portion of musical experiences, with a total of ten concert evenings.

Important:

No intermission
Dress code: casual/smart casual

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Prague Castle - St. Vitus Cathedral

Address:	Pražský hrad , Praha 1
Capacity:	700
Type:	Church
Winter heating:	Yes
Wheelchair access:	Yes

The magnificent St. Vitus Cathedral is situated in the Prague Castle complex

The cathedral was founded by the Emperor Charles IV in 1344 at the site of the former St. Vitus Basilica. While most European cathedrals were built within the city, the Cathedral of Prague grew up outside and far above the town, in the middle of the Prague Castle, which was not only the seat of rulers, but also kind of the sacred precinct with several churches.

From the beginning the cathedral was intended as a prominent feature of the Prague agglomeration. In addition, it was built with great artistic and mystical aspirations. St Vitus, St Wenceslas and St Adalbert Cathedral is the seat of the Archbishop of Prague and the sacred place where the saints, Bohemian kings, princes and Holy Roman emperors are buried - i.e. St. Wenceslas, patron saint of the country, is buried in the Cathedral in St. Wenceslas Chapel, a masterpiece of Gothic art.

Above the chapel is situated chamber guarding the crown jewels of Bohemian kings. The coronations of the kings of Bohemia were held in the Cathedral until 1836. The first architect Matthias of Arras, who was called by Charles IV from Avignon, mediated the model of the French cathedral architecture. Matthias´s successor, genius Petr Parléř, gived to the cathedral and its sculptural decoration features of artistic excellence.

After the death of Charles IV the building was suspended and the cathedral remained a torso. The construction was not completed until the beginning of the 20th century, when the western part was completed and decorated by leading artists of the era (V. Sucharda, A. Mucha etc.). The St. Vitus Cathedral is an excellent example of Gothic architecture and masterpiece of art.

How to get there:

Accessibility by Prague public transport:
metro A (green line) - Malostranská station
tram - Malostranská stop or Pražský hrad stop
Nearest car parking:
Malostranské náměstí

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