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London: Crystal Palace Triennial Handel Festival (1859-1926)
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Description
A collection of items relating to the Triennial Handel Festival at the Crystal Palace, London. The collection also includes material relating to the Handel-Mendelssohn Festival in 1909. The collection contains 19 programmes, in addition to other items of performance ephemera such as tickets and loose seating plans. The majority of programmes include libretti of pieces performed, as well as music lists and lists of performers. Some of these programmes are brochures covering the entirety of a festival, while other programmes relate to one individual concert within a festival.
The collection also includes a few booklets about the 1859 and 1862 festivals – entitled “Programme of arrangements” – which contain facts and figures about the festivals. The collection contains material from festivals from 1859 to 1926, but is by no means complete: the collection does not contain material from every festival, and some festivals are only represented by programmes from festival concerts or else by non-programme artefacts. The programmes and performance ephemera in the collection relate to large-scale performances of oratorio, which in most cases were performances of Handel oratorio.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged chronologically.
Date range
1859 - 1926
Associated People and Organisations
Handel-Mendelssohn Festival -
Triennial Handel Festival -
Associated Places
Crystal Palace
London [England]
Associated Times
19th century - late Victorian 1876-1899
19th century - mid Victorian 1851-1875
20th century - early 1900-1930
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Tickets
Seating Plans
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Royal College Of Music, Library
London SW7 2BS Open Map
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Open
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