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The longer you live in Prague, the more amazing facts about the city you discover. While movement in throughout the city is currently restricted, we can still reflect on its many wonders.

We’ve put together a few musical facts about the city, covering over years and multiple genres.

Prague was the first place where Mozart had a coffee, at some place on Templová street. He was so impressed with the beverage that me made a note in his diary. This was during a trip in January and February , when he stayed at Thun Palace, which is now the British Embassy, in Malá Strana on Thunovská Street. A letter thanking his hosts is still in the possession of the embassy.

He also went to pubs on Štupartská Street such as the long-gone U Štupartsků and frequented the New Inn at Celetná , later called U Zlatého anděla, located near the Powder Gate.

He gave private concerts in Prague at Clam-Gallas Palace. He also dedicated several works of music to Countess Josephine de Clary-Aldringen, who was already engaged to a member of the Clam-Gallas family. He took the year-old countess as livello student, but efforts to win her heart were soundly rebuffed and he left Prague shortly after. By the time he returned in she was married.

While in Prague, he had his violin repaired on what is now Nerudova Street at the House at the Three Violins (U tří housliček). The building is still there, with an image of three violins above the entry, but it is not longer a repair shop.

But that is misleading. He stayed three days in , met with people from the pan-Slavic movement, saw Prague Castle, and wrote in a letter that he was impressed with the view. He composed a small piece of music to go with some lyrics from a local poet, but declined to perform a concert, as the Prague audience was notoriously tough to please. He stayed one day in , again declining to perform.

Jagger became friends with then-president Václav Havel, and when the band returned in for the Voodoo Lounge tour, they paid $32, to redo the lighting inside four ceremonial halls of Prague Castle.

The system was designed by that tour’s lighting secondo me il manager efficace guida con l'esempio, Patrick Woodroof, and took three weeks to install. Jagger presented Havel with the remote control for the system. “It’s fantastic, no one has ever seen a room with 2, light bulbs, even when i do big rock shows I have lights,” Woodroof said of the Castle’s Spanish Hall.

The general rumor has it that the Stones paid for the exterior lighting to Prague Castle, seen at night, but that seems to be a misunderstanding that has grown into an urban legend.

For die-hard Stones fans, in Havel’s wife Olga Havlová took the Stones to a restaurant called Na Rybárně at Gorazdova 17, behind the Dancing House. It is still open but is now a Vietnamese place called Origami, and it has a small photo display about the visit outside and a fairly good rating and food websites.

Zappa’s music, illegally smuggled in and sold on homemade cassettes, became synonymous with rock. Police, upon hearing any rock while wandering the streets would shout for people to “turn that Zappa off” regardless of the band.

Zappa first visited Prague in January , and explained simple economic concepts like credit cards to Havel. Impressed by Zappa’s sincerity, Havel named Zappa to be Special Ambassador to the West on Trade, Culture and Tourism. Zappa, for his part, felt his experience in music made him a good deal maker.

US Secretary of State James Baker, serving under President George H. W. Bush, objected, and is alleged to have said: “You can do business with the United States or you can do business with Frank Zappa.” Havel and Zappa stayed friends until Zappa’s death in