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The estate of Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann (1883–1951) in the Czech Museum of Music also contains notes and screenplay for Hermann Heinz Ortner's play Veit Stoss. They contain notes on exactly when the music should sound. It is clear from this that Wiedermann himself played stage music somewhere near the stage. Ortner's play was presented in 1943 by the Municipal Theaters of Prague, resp. of Vinohrady Theater. However, it was not played in the building of the Vinohrady Theater, which was taken over by the Nazis and where there was no organ, but in the famous building of Legiobanka, where theatre of E. F. Burian used to worked. In the basement hall of the building at Poříčí 26, built in 1937-1938 according to the plans of František Marek, the Rieger organ company from Krnov built a unit-type organ in 1938. Wiedermann also performed recitals there. According to the screenplay, the historical play of the politically engaged Austrian playwright has the full title "Greetings of the Angel or the Carver of the Babenberg Altar or Vít Stoss", with the subtitle "dramatic poem in five acts", translated by František Vrba. The premiere took place on February 1, 1943. Directed by František Salzer, it was performed twenty-one times, and the stage designer was Adolf Wenig jr. The play about the late Gothic sculptor and painter taking place in the 16th century (around 1520) belonged to those carefully chosen German plays, which were presented by the Vinohrady Theater in addition to the Czech ones. From September of the following year, the theaters completely stopped performing. After the war, the basement hall of the Legiobanka was heated, the organ was damaged, moved and later dismantled.