With my Rondo I have won the good opinion of all professional musicians-- from Capellmeister Lachner to the pianoforte-tuner, all praise my composition.
The press showed itself not less favourable than the public.

The fullest account of our artist's playing and compositions, and the impression they produced on this occasion, I found on looking over the pages of the Wiener Theaterzeitung.

Chopin refers to it prospectively in a letter to his parents, written on August 19.

He had called on Bauerle, the editor of the paper, and had been told that a critique of the concert would soon appear.

To satisfy his own curiosity and to show his people that he had said no more than what was the truth in speaking of his success, he became a subscriber to the Wiener Theaterzeitung, and had it sent to Warsaw.