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

The Comet NEOWISE or C/2020 F3 is seen above Prague Castle with St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague, Czech Republic on July 13, 2020. EPA-Yonhap

PRAGUE — Prague’s St. Vitus Cathedral had its new organ inaugurated on Monday, giving the 700-year-old building, the largest in the Czech Republic, a proper instrument to accompany religious services and concerts.

Prague archbishop Stanislav Pribyl was set to bless the organ at a ceremony as part of a mass, with music played by the Czech Philharmonic and featuring “The Luzany Mass” by Antonín Dvořák and works by Georg Friedrich Handel, Camille Saint-Saens and Joseph Haydn.

“St. Vitus Cathedral has gained a new voice,” Pribyl said in a statement. “A voice that will not speak with words but will still speak to the heart.”

A series of eight concerts to present the new instrument will follow in the days to come.