Originally a convict of the Jesuits — from 1786 concert hall and ballroom — Mozart heard Figaro melodies here (11.I.1787), appearances by Beethoven (Oct. 1798), Liszt, Wagner, von Bülow, Rubinstein — from 1851 until 1903 also the “organ school”, at which Dvořák (1857–59) and Janáček (1874–75) studied — later a short while used as a movie studio.