• ensemble of the Royal Infantry Regiment of Baron Wernhardt: participating orchestra
• JEŠKO, Ludevít: director of ensemble

Preliminary news of this event, known in the Czech press as the ‘Národní beseda [National entertainment]’ appeared in Dalibor 10/1/1859. In the German periodical Prager Morgenpost the event would be titled only ‘Besedy’ or ‘böhmische „Besedy‟’ [‘Entertainments’ or ‘Czech Entertainments’]. Thus the relative use of the word ‘national’ between the Czech and German papers may have constituted a reflection of differing nationalist-patriotic outlooks. The first mention of this event by the newspaper Prager Morgenpost was the publication of an advertisement in the issue of 14/1/1859. This reported the participating ensemble, the time of the event (at 4pm whereas Bohemia specified 4.30pm), and the admission cost of 20kr. As was usual for Morgenpost in advertisments of these particular annual events, the text was printed in both Czech and German languages. Similar news of the event was published the following day by the newspaper and a brief post-event report appeared in the issue of 18/1/1859. This noted that the event was numerously attended, with the audience including many beautiful ladies. The works by Lucker, Nickerl and Jechko [Ješko] apparently received vociferous applause.

The Dalibor 20/1/1859 brief review noted that the orchestra performed ‘All pieces precisely and with good taste.’ Only a selection of the works performed were listed by the review.