• Military Music Institute: pupil(s) of institute, orch
• PAVLIS, Jan: director of ensemble, conductor

Prager Morgenpost and Bohemia 1/6/1859 both published advance news of this event. The former reported that ‘Tomorrow the Society for Training in Military Music [‘Verein zur Ausbildung inder Militärmusik’] under the leadership of its able director Mr J. Pavlis stages a Garden Concert, in which the pupils of the Society will participate. The profit is destined for the benefit of the benevolent fund of the Prague Volunteers [Regiment].’ Bohemia reported that ‘The Society for Training in Military Music stages tomorrow (Thursday) in Zdekauer’s [Count Canal’s] Garden, for the benefit of the Benevolent fund of the Bohemian Volunteers, a Garden Concert, in which the pupils of the Society participate, and Mr Music-Director Pawlis [Pavlis] personally directs the concert and for this occasion his specially composed Freiwilligen-Abschieds-Marsch [Volunteers-Farewell-March] will bring to perform.’

The Dalibor 10/6/1859 review noted that the concert was received by the gathering of a numerous public with not a little approval [‘který s nemalou pochvalou od četně shromážěného obecenstvo byl příjat’]. The ‘young musicians played their parts accurately, and many of them demonstrated a more than average ability for their instrument.’ Although the dance pieces performed were thought to lack ‘sweetness’ due, according to the Dalibor critic, to the fact that they were being played ‘only on brass instruments’, the marches that were given were ‘altogether successfully performed.’ In general the intelligent and effective teaching method of Pavlis’s institute was deemed proof of how ‘our nation prides itself in Imperial military music’ The review concluded by noting how the new march Pavlis composed upon well-liked melodies had to be repeated several times. In the trio section the report drew attention to the quotation of [the aria from Fidlovačka] “Kde domov můj?”, a melody ‘which perhaps in many soldiers abroad awakens a reminiscence of the dear Czech homeland.’