The Festival's Anniversary Edition

We invite you to the 75th anniversary edition of the Dvořákova Nelahozeves Festival, which has been presenting Dvořák’s music in the immediate setting of the composer’s birthplace. This year’s edition will return to the very roots of the festival.

The festive day will begin with a church service at St. Andrew’s Church, where Antonín Dvořák was baptized, and will continue with the traditional gathering at the composer’s monument, accompanied by the Prague Conservatory Wind Ensemble. This is exactly how the celebrations took place during the festival’s first edition in 1951.


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Tradition Meets New Beginnings

This year’s festival thus symbolically returns to the origins of Dvořák’s Nelahozeves. At the same time, it commemorates another important moment connected with the place and its legacy. 

A year ago, Antonín Dvořák’s birthplace reopened following extensive renovations. This anniversary edition thus links the festival’s tradition with a new phase of preserving Dvořák’s legacy in his hometown.


Sounds of Dvořák's Childhood

This year’s program will also feature a concert of Czech folk music performed by Plzeňský lidový soubor. Visitors are already familiar with the ensemble’s recordings from the exhibition at Antonín Dvořák Birth House. The festival will thus offer live music that brings to life the soundscape of Dvořák’s childhood in Nelahozeves and recalls one of the sources from which he later drew inspiration for his work.

13:30 – Antonín Dvořák Birth House


From Carnegie Hall to Dvořák's Stories

Visitors will also be introduced to Dvořák’s musical world by pianist Matyáš Novák, who made his debut at the legendary Carnegie Hall in New York at the age of 19. His talk, featuring live musical performances, will focus on Dvořák’s friend Jindřich Kàan z Albestů and lesser-known aspects of Czech musical history.

15:00 – Knights’ Hall, Nelahozeves Castle


The festival will conclude with “From the New World”

The festival day will culminate with a concert by the Prague Conservatory Symphony Orchestra conducted by Miriam Němcová in the courtyard of Nelahozeves Castle. As part of this anniversary edition, the orchestra will perform Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 in E minor, “From the New World”—a work composed far from home that has become one of the most famous Czech compositions in the world.

From Nelahozeves to the New World—and back again for one evening.

Join us in celebrating 75 years of music in the place where Dvořák’s music continues to return.

16:00 – Courtyard of Nelahozeves Castle


Concerts

13:30 – Plzeňský lidový soubor: Concert of Czech folk music
Antonín Dvořák Birth House

16:00 – Miriam Němcová and the Prague Conservatory Symphony Orchestra: Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, “From the New World”
Courtyard of Nelahozeves Castle

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Program

Admission to the following program is free:

9:00 – Vladimír Roubal & Collegium Strahoviense: Antonín Dvořák: Mass in D Major, “Lužanská”
St. Andrew’s Church

10:30 – Festival opening ceremony with musical accompaniment by the Prague Conservatory Wind Orchestra “Rejdišťanka”
Village square by the statue of Antonín Dvořák

15:00 – Matyáš Novák: Talk with musical accompaniment: Dvořák’s friend Jindřich Kaàn of Albest (1852–1926) and his arrangements of music by Smetana and Dvořák
Knights’ Hall at Nelahozeves Castle

*The organizer reserves the right to change the program.