From hailstones to hallelujah: the first Handel commemoration

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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