Some 2000 people attend Mahler concert at Prague Exhibition Grounds

Over 2,000 people attended an open-air concert of Gustav Mahler’s Seventh Symphony performed by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and the Bamberg Symphony at the Prague Exhibition Grounds on Wednesday evening.

The performance, conducted by Jakub Hrůša, commemorated the world premiere of the symphony, which took place at the same venue in 1908 and feature the combined orchestras of the Czech Philharmonic and the New German Theatre Orchestra of Prague.

Following the post-war expulsion from Czechoslovakia, it was its former members who established the foundations of what is now known as the Bamberger Symphoniker in Bavaria.