• Music Institute of Petr Maydl: participating institution
• unspecified participants: participating orchestra
• BENNEWITZ, Antonín: instrumentalist, vl

This was the last of six musical soirées given by Maydl’s Piano Institute. Details of the works to be performed on this occasion were published by Prager Morgenpost 16/4/1859. Given that no concerto for two pianos is extant within his compositional output, the ‘Concerto in Es für 2 Pianoforte’ by C.M. von Weber specified by this Morgenpost report was most likely his Second Piano Concerto in E-flat major, J155.

A general summary of the series of Soirée musicales given by Maydl’s Institute appeared in Prager Morgenpost 21/4/1859. This unsigned text commented that the surprising advances in piano playing achieved by the pupils of the school, attributed to the ‘excellent teaching method’ of Maydl, that had already been displayed in the first four concert evenings were also evident in the final soirée. The review then provided an outline of the programme, noting that ‘We heard amongst other [works] the newest Trio for Piano, Clarinet and ’Cello of Ambros, a work, that in its deep and intelligent conception, in the skilfull and original writing and in the piquant application of the instrumental medium, the esteemed composer leaves nothing nothing to be desired, all the more so when the performance, as was this time, is so excellent.’ Attention was then drawn to ‘the effort of the very industrious Director of the Institute [Maydl] to procure a solid, complete orchestral accompaniment’, which performed in the works by Mendelssohn and Weber. The soloists, all apparently performing with ‘eminent bravura’ were listed as Misses Eggert [K. Eggertová], Finetti, Hofrichter [G. Hofrichterová], Karas [E. Karasová], Maninger [Maningrová], Mascha [Maschová], Slavik [Slavíková] and Tiapal [Tiapalová], Messrs Goschler, Mascha and Rihl [J. Rihl]. A ‘welcome change’, evidently referring to the incorporation of other than piano works in the programme, was made by the inclusion of songs by Mendelssohn and Vogel that were sung by Misses Finetti and Hofrichter [Hofrichtrová]. Also noted as performing in the concert were the Professors Pisařowitz [Pisařovic] and Bennewitz. Their specific rôles were not mentioned by the review, but almost certainly they appeared as clarinettist and violinist respectively, Pisařovic in the Trio by Ambros. ‘A very numerous and distinguished audience’ was reported as attending these soirées.