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Event title:

First musical soirée given by pupils of the Music Institute of J. Proksch

Venue: Music Institute of Josef Proksch

Event type: Art music culture

Date: 09/03/1851 6pm

Season: Lent

Keywords: Education - private music institutes, Annual events and regular series, Public performance events

Programme comprising:

General participants:

Music Institute of Josef Proksch: pupil(s) of institute

• arr. unspecified, ?: Vivaldi: unspecified Concerto , arr. 4 pf

STRADELLA, Alessandro : unspecified aria, v, [pf arr?]

• arr. unspecified, ?: Overture to Gluck's opera Iphigénie en Aulide , arr. 8 pf

UNSPECIFIED, ? : Variations on the Austrian national anthem [über die österreichische Volkshymne], 8 pf (16 hands)

UNSPECIFIED, ? : Duo concertante on Gypsy March from Weber's incidental music Preciosa, 2 pf

AMBROS, August Wilhelm : unspecified 2 songs, v, [pf]

BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van : unspecified Sonata [Grand Sonate], [pf]

• arr. Schumann, Robert Alexander: Andante and Variations in B-flat major , arr. 2 pf

• arr. unspecified, ?: Un bal, from Berlioz's Symphone fantastique , arr. 8pf

• arr. unspecified, ?: Liszt: unspecified fantasie on themes from La prophète , arr. 8pf

Commentary:

Bohemia 4/3/1851 published a report that Proksch was arranging five musical soirées given by pupils of his institute. The dates, time and venue of the five events were specified, and the programme of works to be performed in the first of the soirées listed. The Tagesanzeiger text of Bohemia 9/3/1851 noted the date, time and venue of this event.

The works for multiple pianos were probably arranged by Proksch, although this was not specified by the above source text. The ‘Aria von Aless. Stradella’ was most likely have been Niedermeyer’s Pieta signore, wrongly attributed to Stradella for much of the nineteenth century.

Summary of sources:

Bohemia, ein Unterhaltungsblatt (04/03/1851)
Bohemia, ein Unterhaltungsblatt (09/03/1851)