- Title
- From hailstones to hallelujah: the first Handel commemoration
- Creator
- Halton, Rosalind
- Relation
- A World of Popular Entertainments: An Edited Volume of Critical Essays p. 192-206
- Relation
- http://www.cambridgescholars.com/a-world-of-popular-entertainments-16
- Publisher
- Cambridge Scholars
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2012
- Description
- The festival of five concerts celebrating the music of Georg Frederic Handel, given in the grandest music venues of London between 26 May and 5 June 1784, has been described as "the most important single event in the history of English music" and "almost a state occasion." Known as the Handel Commemoration-and actually intended to commemorate twenty-five years after the composer's death, rather than a miscalculated attempt at a centenary celebration of his birth-the concerts brought together musicians and audience on a scale never before seen in England, and one that would remain engrained in the character of English musical life.
- Subject
- Georg Frederic Handel; concert history; musical perfomances
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1053353
- Identifier
- uon:15568
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781443837309
- Language
- eng
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