• ensemble of Infantry Regiment of Archduke Albrecht: participating ensemble, orch
• ensemble of Infantry Regiment of Prince Gustav von Wasa: participating ensemble, orch
• SVOBODA, František Václav: director of ensemble
• URSCHITZ, F.: director of ensemble

Advance news of this event to celebrate the forthcoming visit of the Emperor Franz Joseph and the Empress Elizabeth appeared in similar texts published by Bohemia, Mercy’s Anzeiger and Der Tagesbote on 24/5/1854. The date, venue and title of the occasion was reported by each of the sources, which noted too the participation of the two Infantry Regiment bands under the direction of their respective Kapellmeisters. Among other [works] will be performed a new ‘tone-painting’ entitled Die Reise durch Europa by Damsée. For this Festival a new polka had been written by F. Urschitz, Freudengrüsse, and could be purchased at the box office for 3kr [and presumably was performed on this occasion]. The report concluded by noting that a gun would be fired as a signal [presumably to announce that the event would be taking place] two hours before the festival was to begin. If the weather was inclement then the event would take place on the following day. On 26/5/1854 Mercy’s Anzeiger reported that the ‘Huldigungsfest’ would take place ‘today’ and that its commencement would be signalled with the sounding of a gun.

Mercy’s Anzeiger 5/5/1854 published a notice announcing ‘Great orchestra of the Royal Military; afternoons. On the Žofín Island: Tuesday, Friday, Sunday; in Zdekauer’s (formerly Count Canal’s Garden): Sunday, Wednesday, Saturday; in the Estates Arboretum: Sunday and Thursday.’ No further details were given by the source. The event reported by the above Der Tagesbote source would have constituted one of the entertainments in this series on the Žofín Island, although this particular event was undoubtedly a more substantial undertaking given on account of the occasion in the wake of the marriage of the Emperor.

A brief unsigned review of this event was published by Mercy’s Anzeiger 27/5/1854. The source related that the occasion was not such a success as that which had previously taken place to celebrate the marriage of the royal couple, but nonetheless attracted a ‘refined and elegant’ audience. ‘Many music pieces, among them “Die Reise um die Welt [probably Die Reise durch Europa]” gained great applause and had to be encored.’