• JEŠKO, Ludevít: director of ensemble

An advertisement announcing this event was published by Mercy’s Anzeiger on 21/3/1857 and 22/3/1857. This source related: ‘Sunday 22nd March at 6pm takes place in the Hall of Žofín Island with the participation of the Music-Band of the renowned Royal 16th Infantry Regiment of Baron von Wernhardt under the personal direction of their Kapellmeister Mr Jeschko, a Concert-Soirée, in which the band with its experienced string orchestra will with precision for the first time perform amongst other concert pieces two newly composed dances by Mr Jeschko, a waltz ‘Sofien-Klänge’ and a Polka tremblante ‘Stanka-Polka’. The box office opens at 5.30.’ The Vergnügungsanzeiger of Mercy’s Anzeiger 22/3/1857 announced ‘Today Sunday:... Žofín Island Hall: Music-Soirée’, undoubtedly refering to this same event.