• LUKES, Jan Ludevít: soloist, v
• STRAKATÝ, Karel: soloist, v

The review of this event, signed ‘H.’ that was published by Dalibor 10/4/1861 censured Albin Mašek, the director of the choir at St Nicholas for giving his own mass on this occasion, even though it was ‘one of the best works that Mr Mašek... has produced as the fruit of long years of practice in the musical world.’ The critic thought that the decision to perform the work, ‘even if it does not prove his imprudence, then at least it testifies to the immodesty of director Mašek.’ A better choice it was asserted, would have been a more ‘profound’ mass, ‘perhaps by Tůma, [F.X.] Brixi, [Robert] Führer or other.’ The reviewer was also ‘not a little’ surprised by the performance of Foerster, who at this time was the resident organist at Sv Mikuláš. Foerster apparently improvised a festival prelude in the manner of a great chorale, into which he worked the theme on the national anthem [Haydn’s Emperor] treated in homophonic and then contrapuntal style, followed by ‘Ite missa est’, and culminating in the Czech chorale Svatý Václave! performed on two manuals and ‘with ingenious harmonisation.’