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Dvorak's 'Luzany' Mass

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Sep 11, 202600:02:00Health

Synopsis In 1886, a Czech patron of the arts, Josef Hlavka, had a chapel built at his summer residence at Lužany in Bohemia and asked his composer friend Antonín Dvořák to write a mass to dedicate it. As a devout Catholi...

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