• Salon Orchestra of Jan Weber: participating orchestra

The dates of the events comprising this series of ‘Musical Garlands’ were advertised well in advance in two daily German Prague newspapers. Prager Morgenpost 10/10/1858 published an advertisement noting that this year’s series of ‘musikalisches Kränzchen’ [Musical Garlands] were to be held in the Konvikt hall on the Saturdays of 16, 23, 30 October, 6, 13, 20, 27 November and 4, 11 and 18 December. Prager Zeitung 10/10/1858 published the same information, but in a different wording as an item of news in the section Prager und Provinzial-Nachrichten.

The Tageskalender published in Bohemia 20/11/58 noted only the venue, date and time of this particular production, and that participating was [Jan] Weber’s ‘Concert Orchestra’. However, whether this event did actually take place is open to doubt. On the day of the production, Prager Morgenpost published news that ‘for the time being’ the Musical Garlands held in the Konvikt Hall were to be suspended. The lack of any subsequent periodical report noting any programme details of this event - previous performances in this series had usually had their programmes reported - does indicate that the production may not have taken place. Subsequent events in this series were listed in Tageskalenders in Bohemia on the days they were originally advertised to be taking place.