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Handel Commemoration Concert (1784)
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1344.m.20
Description
The programme and wordbook for a performance of Handel, Messiah, given at Westminster Abbey on 29 May 1784 as the third Handel Commemoration Concert.
This document provides detailed information regarding the personnel involved, including complete lists of the vocal, choral and orchestral performers, conducted by Mr Joah Bates with Mr John Ashley (assistant conductor).
Directors: the Earls of Exeter, Sandwich and Uxbridge, Sir Watkin Williams Wynn and Sir Richard Jebb.
Assistant Directors: Dr Benjamin Cooke, Dr Samuel Arnold, Redmond Simpson, Thomas-Saunders Dupuis, Mr John Jones, Mr Theodore Aylward, Mr William Parsons and Mr Edmund Ayrton.
Vocal soloists: Messrs Champness, Corfe, Harrison, Knyvett, Norris and Reinhold, Signors Bartolini and Tasca, Madame Mara and Misses Abrams and Cantelo.
Date range
1784 - 1784
Associated People and Organisations
Tasca, Luigi -
Simpson, Redmond -
Reinhold, Frederick Charles -
Parsons, William -
Norris, Thomas -
Mara, Gertrud Elisabeth -
Knyvett, Charles -
Jones, John -
Harrison, Samuel -
Handel, George Frideric -
Dupuis, Thomas-Saunders -
Corfe, Joseph -
Cooke, Benjamin -
Champness, Samuel Thomas -
Cantelo, Ann -
Bates, Joah -
Bartolini, Vincenzio -
Ayrton, Edmund -
Aylward, Theodore -
Ashley, John -
Arnold, Samuel -
Abrams, Harriet -
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18th century - late 1776-1799
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Word books
List of orchestral players
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British Library
The British Library
St Pancras
,96 Euston Road
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