• Žofín Academy: participating institution, vv
• ZVONAŘ, Josef Leopold: director of institute, conductor

Prager Morgenpost 22/3/1861 published news of this concert, reporting its date, time and venue, and listing the programme in detail, even noting the century of composition of some of the older compositions. The source also identified five of the works as being performed for the first time (in Prague).

This very varied concert with its deliberately ‘historical’ content was characteristic of concert programmes given by the Prague Žofín Academy during its management in the early 1860s by the Czech composer and pedagogue, J.L. Zvonař. The nature of the programme was reflected in the initial comments of the Dalibor review, signed ‘E’, which noted that ‘Mr director Zvonař, known as a thoroughly and broadly educated artist, always gives programmes [that are] very diverse and of the highest interest.’ The concert was, at least in terms of the standards of performance of the works given, a success, the Dalibor critic commenting that ‘the performance of all the numbers was masterly, and testified to the thoroughness of rehearsals.’ However, no comment was made by the correspondent concerning the reception and response of the audience to works performed. Although the Dalibor source enthused about the content of this concert programme, the Národní listy advance report was less effusive, drawing attention to the fact that only a relatively small number of native Czech works were to be performed.