• Cecilia Society: participating institution, chorus, orch
• APT, Antonín: director of institute, conductor

Advance information of this event appeared in daily news published by Prager Morgenpost 11/12/1859 in a text specifying the date, time, venue, soloists and complete details of the programme and works being performed in the concert. Advertisements also giving programme details, as well as noting that tickets could be obtained before the event from the music shop of J. Fischer and on the day of the performance from the box office [at the venue], were published by Prager Morgenpost on 13/12/1859 and 14/12/1859. The same details of the event and the programme were announced by Bohemia 11/12/1859 and identical advertisements published on 13/12/1859 and 14/12/1859. Prager Zeitung 13/12/1859 simply announced the date, venue and time of the concert.

The unsigned Dalibor 20/12/1859 review noted that a setting of the Czech poet A.V. Šmilovský’s Romance Umírající pěvec [The dying singer] by Josef Leopold Zvonař was also due to have been performed in this concert, but could not be given owing to the illness of the bass soloist Karel Strakatý. Similar news was given by Prager Morgenpost 15/12/1859 at the end of its review. The Dalibor critic was convinced that Haydn’s Symphony no.100 possessed detailed intrinsic programmatic content, noting that ‘the second part [of the concert] opened with a military symphony by Jos[eph] Haydn, in which are reflected the principal moments in a soldier’s life.’ The review remarked that the second movement ‘most evidently’ depicted a march-past of soldiers, and that the third movement ‘without doubt’ describes dancing and amusement in a soldiers’ camp. The performance of all the works was considered ‘excellent’, especially of the second movement of the symphony, which had to be repeated.

Reviews of the concert were published in the German newspapers Prager Morgenpost 15/12/1859, signed ‘**’, Bohemia 15/12/1859, signed ‘V.’, and Prager Zeitung 16/12/1859, signed ‘!!’.