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Event title:
Annual performance examinations for pupils of the Music Institute of Antonín Wiedemann
Venue: Music Institute of Antonín Wiedemann
Event type: Examinations and didactic events
Date: 27/07/1860
Season: Summer
Programme including:
- Music Institute of Antonín Wiedemann: pupil(s) of institute, vl, vc, pf
- MÜHLWENZLOVÁ, J.: soloist, pf
- KIEHAUPT, Heinrich: soloist, vc
- HOCK, L.: soloist, vl
- SEELIG, A.: soloist, vc
- CASINELLI, V.: soloist, vl
- HARRER, J.: soloist, vl
• Bráva, František : vl
Commentary:
The Dalibor review listed the following pupils as having performed in these examinations, although the specific works that each of them played were not stated:
pf, sl. J. Mühlwenzlová;
vc, Jindřich [Heinrich] Kiehaupt; L. Hock; A. Seelig;
vl, V. Cassinelli [Casinelli]; J. Harrer; František Bráva.
The composer of the Concertino for violin was described as ‘Fr. Pecháček’. This was almost certainly the Viennese violin virtuoso and composer Franz Xaver Pecháček. No orchestral ensemble was reported by the review to have been participating in this event. The concertante works were probably performed with piano accompaniment. František Bráva, who the Dalibor correspondent noted had been studying the violin for only ten months, performed Kalivoda’s Divertissement ‘with astonishing clarity and accuracy.’ Bráva was at this time also a pupil of the Prague Organ School, participating in the annual Organ School examinations on 30/7/1860.