The Cecilian Music Society in Ústí nad Orlicí, East Bohemia

In the year 1903, the oldest existing Bohemian music society, the Tonkünstler-Wittwen-und-Waisen-Societät, founded in Prague in March 1803, finally ceased all its music activities; it continued its work just as a pension fund up to its final closing down in 1930. The Cecilská hudební jednota (Cecilian Music Society), founded in November 1803 in Ústí nad Orlicí/Wildenschwert, East Bohemia, was at that time still thriving. The ways in which the period social, political and cultural circumstances reflected in its work, are of special interest for anybody researching Bohemian music history