• Orchestra of the Prague Civil Sharpshooters Corps: participating orchestra

Bohemia 17/12/1858 published news that dance events given by the Prague Civil Sharpshooters, ‘Schützenreunionen’ [Shooters Reunions], were to be held on 22 January and 12 February, and ‘ein eleganter Schützenball [an elegant Sharpshooters Ball]’ on 7 March in the Žofín Island Hall [Sophieninselsaale]. However, an advertisement appeared in Prager Morgenpost 14/1/1859, and was repeated on 16, 18 and 19/1/1859, noting that tickets for the Sharpshooters Reunions taking place on 20 January, 10 and 24 February and to the Ball on 7 March, could be obtained from the offices of the Sharpshooters. These dates were also confirmed in a report appearing in Prager Morgenpost 15/1/1859, which noted too that the venue was the Sophieninselsaale [Žofín Hall]. Hence the dates of the first two dance reunions announced by Bohemia 17/12/1858 were inaccurate.

A brief report of the success of the first reunion in this series was published by Prager Morgenpost 22/1/1859. The event, the first of the year’s dance-reunions staged by the Royal Prague Civil Sharpshooters Corps, was given in the ‘tastefully decorated Hall of the Žofín Island’, and was numerously attended.