• DREYSCHOCK, Alexander: soloist, pf

According to the Dalibor 10/11/1860 review, this private musical matinée was given by Alexander Dreyschock for his Prague friends before he departed [on 13/11/1860] upon a concert tour of Russia. The programme is interesting for including the first Prague performance of the last large-scale work of the Czech composer W.H. Veit, his Piano Trio in D major, which was composed and dedicated to Dreyschock earlier in 1860. The review noted that ‘without doubt this [work] belongs to the best of his compositions. Original and charming ideas, their skilful working out, as well as clarity and transparency, these are the characteristics of this masterly composition.’ The work by Chopin was described by D as ‘Fantasie-impromptu (F moll)’, an ambiguous description which may actually have been referring to either the Fantasie-Impromptu in C# minor, op.66, or to the Fantasie in F minor, op.49. The programme is reproduced in order corresponding with the Dalibor source.