On 23/6/1854 the Vergnügungsanzeiger section of Mercy’s Anzeiger noted ‘Today Friday:... in Guest house “at the Pawn [zum Bauer] (Gartengasse 594-2) Opening celebration of this year’s summer season, Music Festival [Musikfest]’. No further details were given by the source and the event received no coverage in the newspaper’s daily news reports. Although identified grandly as an opening Festival for the summer season, the characteristic season of summer musical entertainments being given in the city’s popular social venues had long since begun.