Handel goes big
29th May 2013
This wonderful engraving comes from Charles Burney’s great Account of the Musical Performances in Westminster-Abbey, and the Pantheon, May 26th, 27th, 29th; and June the 3d, and 5th, 1784. In Commemoration of Handel (1785). The Handel Commemoration Concerts of 1784, marking the centenary of the composer’s birth, have been described as ‘in some ways the most […]
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