ABSTRACT
The last novel of the Czech writer Jirı´ Weil appeared posthumously in 19602 and begins with the following story.
After the German invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Academy of Music in Prague
was about to be transformed by the National Socialists into an institute devoted
entirely to German Art. The building of the academy had a balcony on which
there were many statues, each one representing a great composer of the past.
