• Music Institute of Josef Jiránek: participating institution

Národní listy 3/8/1862 reported that ‘Musical examinations for pupils of the Institute of Mr Josef Jiránek are taking place today 3rd August about 11.30am, then tomorrow 4th August about 10am and 3pm in the Žofín Hall. No further details of the event were given by this source.

These examinations may have been indirectly referred to in a review published in Lumír 7/8/1862 covering examination events in Prague music teaching institutes taking place over the summer months. The correspondent noted that insufficient space was available in Lumír to report in detail upon all such events. However, the source reported that examinations in all piano institutes had been ‘for the most part good, in some places even excellent... [pupils demonstrated] their technique, their clean touch, able performance and other good qualities, which is of great credit to the directors and teachers of their institute.’ After briefly praising several identified institutes, other schools were generally dismissed with the remark that they ‘performed once agan old hackneyed compositions, of which the greater part were without worth.’ Jelinek’s institute, not specifically mentioned earlier in this review, possibly fell into this category.