• Žofín Academy: participating institution, vv

The works contained in this event are reproduced in performance order according to the programme listing published by Prager Morgenpost 28/03/1859. The female soloists were identified as being pupils of the Žofín Academy. Kormunda and ‘Slawik’ were not described as being asociated with that institution. The latter was most likely the composer and teacher Karel Slavík, who has active in Prague during the later 1850s and associated with the Žofín Academy.

The unsigned review published by Dalibor 1/4/1859 (p.79), reported that the work receiving the greatest approbation from the audience was Veit’s ‘charming’ Svítání [Dawn]. This was followed by a request from the critic that Veit ‘would more often produce such choruses’, a petition for the composer to write Czech settings rather than the German choruses which, as far as the critic was aware, formed the mainstay of his secular choral output. His patriotic chorus Na Prahu [To Prague], composed in 1852, was at this time still unknown to the Prague public.