• String Orchestra of Komzák: participating ensemble, orch

A large advertisement for this ‘Concert-Soirée’ given by the ‘Schützen-Capellmeister [Kapellmeister of the Sharpshooters Regiment] Carl Komsak [Karel Komzák] with his large complete String Orchestra’ was published by Prager Morgenpost 10/11/1859. The occasion was evidently of great popular interest, for the whole programme was relayed in the advertisement text and the text clearly drew great attention to the presence in Prague of the ‘here so favourite composer’. Gung’l was reported to have composed for the evening a special waltz, Die Prager, and was to conduct himself his own ‘great Potpourri’ Aus der Mappe eines wandernden Musikanten. Admission to the event cost 20 kr.

Dalibor 10/12/1859 also published advance news of this concert. This text noted that Gung’l was born in 1810 in Zsambek in Hungary, and in 1848 had undertaken an artistic journey to America. Some programme details of this entertainment were also given, interestingly with the titles related in Czech, namely Pražané for the waltz Die Prager and Pražské památní lístky for Prager Stammblätter. The other works were not named, although the concertante items to be performed were all misleadingly announced as ‘koncerty’ [concerti].