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The 700-year-old St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague inaugurates a new organ

  • Prague’s 700-year-old St. Vitus Cathedral inaugurated a new organ, blessed at mass and played by the Czech Philharmonic (including Dvořák), with eight concerts planned to showcase it.
  • Built by renowned maker Gerhard Grenzing in Spain, the instrument has four keyboards and about 6,000 pipes ranging from 7 mm to over 7 m; it was shipped in pieces and reassembled in Prague.
  • The project took roughly 14 years and was largely crowd-funded — a 2017 campaign raised more than 135 million CZK (about $6.5M) — to replace an undersized, unreliable 1930s organ.
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