Preface
George Frideric Handel was born A Guide to Handel's London in Germany, lived in Italy for four years, and made London his home by Carol J. Schaub for the last fifty years of his life. With musical traditions firmly established in many European cities, why did Handel choose London? As today's ·residence at Cannons, Brydges' residents and tourists are aware, grand house near Edgeware in Mid London is one of the finest cultural dlesex. Handel's first biographer, centers in the world. We can only John Mainwaring, wrote in 1760 speculate that Handel had the same that Cannons was "a place which feeling about. the city when he was then in all its glory, but arrived in 1710. Although many of remarkable for having much more the· landmarks associated with of art than nature, and much more Handel's life in London have disap cost than art."2 Handel stayed at 'peared over the intervening cen Cannons until 1719 when his love turies, it is hoped that this guide will for the theater and the newly assist all music lovers in retracing established Royal Academy lured some of Handel's footsteps. him back to London. In 1723, Handel moved to the Part I house at 25 Brook Street where he A Guide to the Past lived until his death on 14 April 1759. It was in a neighborhood in Setting the Stage ... habited by "people of quality"3 and Handel's London did not have the Handel must have been quite com convenience of an efficient fortable there. The parish church Underground system and red was St. George's, Hanover Square. double-decker busses. Streets were Although there is no evidence that unpaved, muddy, and it was not un any of Handel's music was ever per til 1737 that pedestrians and car formed there during his lifetime, he riages were separated by posts 25 Brook Street, London-Handel's was a regular worshipper at the erected on the major roads. The area residence from 1723-1759. church and records show that he surrounding the city's most rented a place in one of the pews prestigious theater in Haymarket Italy, he found London to be a center from 1755. was just that-with 1300 hay of intellectual and cultural activity. wagons on market days to fuel the Society was receptive to new A Place to Perform . . . Theaters city's equine transport system.! musical ideas (especially Italian The King's (originally Queen's) The half century which Handel opera, introduced in 1705), and sup Theater on Haymarket provided a lived here was a time of expansion, port from the aristocracy offered venue for more than forty of development, and opportunity for some measure of financial security. Handel's operas, oratorios, and artistic and business endeavors. Since the death of Purcell some fif other stage works. It was here Londpn in 1710 was a compact city: teen years earlier, the thriving Handel's first opera, Rinaldo, was the western limit was Bond Street, cultural environment had been performed in 1711. Rinaldo was an north of Oxford Street were hamlets without a musical leader. London instant success, and Handel com of Marylebone, Paddington, and was ready for Handel-and he was posed three more Italian operas in Tottenham Court, and the area right for London. the next few years. These operas above Piccadilly consisted of were revived at the King's Theater meadow and farmland. By 1750, A Place to Live . . . until 1717; for a variety of reasons many fashionable squares had been During his first visit to London, there were no opera seasons during built in the area bordered by Oxford Handel apparently stayed with the years that Handel was at Can Street, Hyde Park, and the Thames. friends. After a brief trip to Ger nons. London had a royal court and a many, he returned in 1712, and the the Royal Academy was long flourishing tradition of church wealthy Earl of Burlington became established in 1719 to provide music; enthusiastic amateur perfor one of his most important patrons. Italian opera for London's cultured mances were common in taverns Although contemporary writings society, and Handel was called upon . and private homes. And so when the give little information about to produce a great number of works twenty-five year old Handel arrived Handel's early years in London, it for the King's Theater. The produc on the scene, with his career well seems that he stayed at Burlington tions were of high quality, and the under \\;'ay as a result of his years in House from 1713-1716. During this fame of the Royal Academy was time, Handel established his reputa widespread. In spite of in-house Schaub currently resides In Rockford, il tion as a composer of Italian opera. bickering and quarrels, the linois. For the past seventeen years she has taught music In the American In 1717 he received an invitation Academy was an enormous success. Schools of Berult, Lebanon; Jedda, from James Brydges (later Duke of However, competition from other Saudi Arabia; and London. Chandos) to become composer-in- attractions eventually led to the Page 32 THE CHORAL JOURNAL financial downfall of the Royal generally well supported by also commissioned to write a "Birth Academy. John Gay's Beggar's subscription, but always subject to day Ode for Queen Anne," but there Opera (1728) in English opened up the whims of London's fickle is no evidence that it was ever per the world of theater to the middle aristocratic audiences. During the formed for her, due to the Queen's class; audiences flocked to the 1747 season, Handel felt that his poor health.5 The Utrecht Te Deum theater at Lincoln's Inn Fields to see aristocratic patrons had failed him was first performed at the recently this new ballad opera. A revival of and so appealed to the middle class. completed St. Paul's Cathedral in Ju Shakespeare as well as popular The general public welcomed the ly 1713. farces and comedies also con dignity and seriousness of Handel's Handel was very interested in the tributed to the decline of public in music and became his most en organ at St. Paul's during his early terest in Italian opera. And so, in thusiastic supporters. years in London, and would attract 1729, the Royal Academy was By 1750, a Lenten season of large audiences as he played it after declared bankrupt. English oratorios was a regular evensong. He and his acquaintances In an effort to preserve Italian feature at Covent Garden, and would then go to the Queen's Arms opera as an art form, arrangements always concluded with a perfor tavern in St. Paul's Churchyard were soon made for Handel and his mance of Messiah. With the onset of where a harpsichord was available manager, Heidegger, to take over blindness, Hanc;lel was forced to for patrons. the King's Theater for a further five seek assistance with the manage In 1717 a royal boating party pro years. Handel composed seven new ment and conducting of his perfor vided the occasion for the Water· operas for this venture, but also mances. Revivals of his music con Music. The Thames was an impor turned to oratorios in English to at tinued as his former pupil, John tant thoroughfare in the early eigh tract audiences away from his Christopher Smith, Jr., successfully teenth century, and there are many competitors. The oratorios were carried on the oratorio seasons dur accounts of river parties accom received with enthusiasm and an ad ing Handel's last years and following panied by music. King George I and ded feature was the introduction of his death. his party followed a route from organ concertos played by Handel Whitehall to Chelsea (where they between the acts. A rival opera com A Place to Perform . . . Churches disembarked for supper) and back to pany, the Opera of the Nobility, and the Royal Court Whitehall. finally forced Handel out of the Although the bulk of Handel's During his residency at Cannons, King's Theater in 1734. He moved musical output was theatrical, his Handel wrote the eleven "Chandos his productions to the new theater at career was interspersed with royal Anthems" for the chapel services at Covent Garden until the Opera of the commissions for music in the the. nearby church of St. Lawrence, Nobility collapsed in 1737. private chapel and for ceremonial Whitchurch. The. chapel at Cannons After two more seasons back at occasions. This pattern was evident was not completed until 1720. Ads King's Theater, Handel was again by 1713 when Queen Anne asked and Galatea and Esther were also obliged to move-this time to the Handel to write a Te Deum for a composed during this time; these less prestigious theater at Lincoln's thanksgiving service to celebrate "masques" were revised in 1732 and Inn Fields. Opera continued to be the Peace of Utrecht. Handel was appeared as Handel's first English Handel's favored form, but au diences became increasingly indif ferent and performances were poor ly received. Handel directed his final opera, Deidamia, at Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1741. It was a failure, as was his other operatic production of the season; Handel got the message and reluctantly abandoned Italian opera. Disillusioned with London au diences, Handel must have wel MASTERS PROFESSIONAL PERFORMERS comed an invitation to give a season in Dublin. 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September 1987 Page 33 oratorios, It is curious to note that tracted more attention than sible for the ultimate acceptance of these early efforts at English Handel's Music for the Royal Messiah in London, and Handel left musical drama were laid to rest 'for Firework. the Hospital a score of Messiah to nearly fifteen years as Handel ensure continuation of the benefit returned to Italian opera. A Place to Perform . . . And Charity performances after his death. Meanwhile, the royal commis A glimpse at Handel's com Mainwaring ends his Memoirs by sions continued. There had always mitments to various charities referring to Handel as an "illustrious been a close association between reveals his kindhearted nature. The Foreigner."7 Thankfully, this Handel and the royal family, and he first performance of Messiah in "Foreigner" made England his was appointed "Composer of Music Dublin in 1742 was given in aid of home and shared his gift of music to the Chapel Royal" in 1723. three charitable causes, and by this with the world. Handel's naturalization as a British time Handel's generosity was well subject in 1727 made it possible for known in London. His finances were Part 1/ A Guide for Today him to compose the Coronation An never stable, and yet he was always thems for George II. The coronation ready to help those less fortunate. In Many of the places associated took place in Westminster Abbey, 1728 a Fund for the Support of with Handel's life in London have and although by all accounts the ser Decayed Musicians (now the Royal long since disappeared or been vice was disorganized and the an SOciety of Musicians) was estab greatly altered. However, some thems "in confusion,"6 the music lished, and Handel was an original buildings have survived, sites exist, has been performed at every British subscriber. He gave annu.al benefit and with some imagination the coronation since. performances for the Fund, and left visitor may recapture the essence of George II proved to be Handel's the charity {;:( 1000 in his will. London in Handel's day. life-long supporter and a steady The Foundling Hospital was 25 Brook Street was Handel's patron during the difficult theater established by Thomas Coram in residence for more than fifty years. seasons. In return, Handel continued 1739 for the maintenance and Records show that when he moved to provide music for state occasions, education of abandoned children. in, he had a short term lease at £60 and for services in Westminster Ab This charitable institution also per year. The house stands just west bey and the Chapel Royal. The grand benefited from Handel's patronage of Bond Street and is marked with a celebration for the Treaty of Aix-Ia throughout the last ten years of his blue plaque. The upper floor was Chapelle ended in a well-known life. Annual Messiah performances, added in the late nineteenth century fiasco. The structure erected in other fund-raising concerts, and the and the ground floor was converted Green Park for an ambitious display gift of an organ all reflect the com to a shop in 1906. Between the two of fireworks caught fire and burned poser's good will and support of this world wars there was interest in to the ground in the middle of the worthy cause. The Foundling restoring the house and making it a show. This mishap must have at- Hospital performances were respon- Handel Museum, but there was not enough financial support and the scheme was abandoned. Burlington House, on Piccadilly, is ICE INC. the present home of the Royal Academy of Art. 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The origin~1 keyboard, with three octaves and SIX stops, is still in situs; Handel prob ably played it since the organ at Cannons was not built until the chapel was completed in 1720. A monument to the Duke of Chandos, and his family vault, are located in the mausoleum. This is the site of the charming but fictitious story about the blacksmith who inspired the "Harmonious Blacksmith." A marker at his grave in the church yard perpetuates the legend. St. George's, Hanover Square was Interior view-Church of St. Lawrence, the parish church during Handel's Original organ - ca. 1716-Church of St. Whitchurch, Canons Park. Lawrence, Whitchurch, Canons Park. residence in Brook Street. It was prising that theaters often burned to completed in 1725, and although he 3000 people in attendance. His the ground and then were rebuilt on apparently had little connection monument in the "poet's corner" of the same site. with the musical activities of the the south transcept was unveiled in King's Theater, on the site of Her church, he did compose a theme for 1762; the sculptor, Roubiliac, took a Majesty's Theater, Haymarket, was an extemporization by organ can death mask of Handel, and this may the venue for most of Handel's didates there. have been the basis for this monu- operas. The original Queen's St. James's Palace is closed to the public, but the ch~p~ls where Theater (after Anne) was built in CHORAL MUSIC FOR 1704, and was renamed King's Handel's royal commissions were performed for weddings and ALL SEASONS BY Theater in 1714 for George I. The theater of Handel's time was Lon funerals are open for services. The don's opera house during the eigh Chapel Royal (sixteenth-century CHESLEY teenth century, and was destroyed Tudor) has services October throug~ Good Friday, and the Queen s by fire in 1789. KAHMANN Covent Garden Theater was com Chapel (1625 Inigo Jones), Easter pleted in 1732, but not used ex through July. BRAND NEW clusively for operas until the nine St. Paul's Cathedral had recently FOR CHRISTMAS teenth century. The first theater was been completed when Handel first modelled after the Opera House arrived. The original organ stood THE BIG (King's) in Haymarket, but was in across the entrance to the choir as a screen; it was rebuilt, divided, and tended to be more magnificent. This PARADE placed at the sides in 1870. Handel theater burned down in 1808, and (for SATB, two trumpets & keyboard) today's Royal Opera House is the seems to have been associated with St. Paul's only during his early years AND third on this site at Bow Street. in London. However, he employed Lincoln's Inn Fields, the theater its choir to supplement that of the AND HE Handel knew, was on the south side Chapel Royal for later state occa of the square, on Portugal Street. It WARMS sions. was the third on the site, and had Westminster Abbey-In his will, THE been rebuilt from a tennis court in Handel wished to be buried privately 1714. After it had outlived its at Westminster Abbey. However, it EARTH usefulness, it became a warehouse was a grand funeral with at least (for SATB, vocal solos & keyboard) and was torn down in 1848. The visitor wishing to see the For reference copies, "~"" ."" ]"/:1(3 I-Iandbell Conne"ction churches associated with Handel's - " Mal(l1ark Handoells & Choirchim~s call or write: ~ life in London will find them still Music • Supplies • AcceSSOries Orbiting Clef standing and virtually unaltered. Serving the Handbell Ringer and Director with a complete line of Productions, Inc. 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ment. It is interesting that the year Manuscripts of birth is inscribed as MDCLXXXIV, . Handel bequeathed his "musick a year earlier than is documented in n books" to his old friend and scribe the baptismal register of the Lieb John Christopher Smith, Sr., and he frauenkirche in Halle, Germany. passed them to his son in 1763. This confusion may result from the Smith, Jr., gave them to the Royal fact that England used the Old Style Family in the 1770's in gratitude for (Julian) calendar until 1752. This a pension from George III. Seven also may explain why the first volumes (mainly containing rough Handel Commemoration (in sketches) went to the Founder's Col Westminster Abbey for the lection in the Fitzwilliam Museum, centenary of his 1685 birth)was held Cambridge. The remaining volumes in 1784.8 were kept in royal residences until To complete a tour of Handel's they were deposited on permanent London, two sites remain. These loan in the British Museum in 1911. locations were the scene of Handel's Queen Elizabeth II donated the col performances in his later years, lection to the Royal Music Library in away from the world of the theater 1957. and church. These autographs had been Green Park is part of London's bound in eighty-eight volumes since oldest royal park. Charles II added the time of George III, with portions these acres to St. James's Park in of large works distributed 1667. The proximity to the royal throughout several volumes. These residence -at St. James's Palace were broken up and rebound in the made it an ideal setting for the St. George's Church, Hanover Square, 1920's in order to bring whole works London. "Royal Fireworks" of 1749. together, resulting in the present set Foundling Hospital is now known funds was torn down in 1926. Today of ninety-seven volumes of as the Thomas Coram Foundation, the Foundation continues to provide autographs. The volumes contain after its founder. The hospital and for children with special needs. ninety percent of all of Handel's sur chapel for which Handel raised Treasures displayed at their offices viving autographs and constitute the
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Page 38 THE CHORAL JOURNAL the British Library (at the British Museum) is kept in the Music Library. With a pass to· the Reading Room and a letter of reference from a university or other research in stitution, it is possible to study the manuscripts.
Portraits and Monuments Many likenesses of Handel have found their way into private collec tions, but there are some which are readily accessible to the general public besides those at the Coram Foundation and Westminster Ab bey. National Portrait Gallery: The por trait by Hudson (1756) with Messiah score is the only one on show. Other portraits and· a bust are kept in reserve and can be seen by special arrangement. Victoria and Albert. Museum: A statue by Roubiliac (1738) depicts Handel in casual attire. This statue viving music festival. By the 1750's, Map References (Nearest Underground Sta was erected in Vauxhall Gardens Handel's music was part of the tion) during Handel's lifetime, and after regular repertoire, and his oratorios 1. 25 Brook Street (Bond Street or Oxford the Gardens were demolished, it Circus) . dominated the festival by 1780. 2. Burlington House (Green Park or Piccadil· stood in Novello's music shop. The Iy Circus) statue was sold to the V & A in 1965. For Further Research 3. King's Theater (Piccadilly Circus) Additonal portraits exist in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 4. Covent Garden Theater (Covent Garden) Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Guildhall Library, London 5. St. George's, Hanover Square (Oxford Cir Bodleian Library, Oxford; Royal Royal College of Music, London cus) Royal Society of Musicians, London 6. Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace (Green Society of Musicians, London; and Park or Piccadilly Circus) in the royal collections in Kens It is hoped that the reader has en 7. St. Paul's Cathedral (St. Paul's) ington Palace and Buckingham joyed this tour, whether it was the 8. Westminster Abbey (St. James's Park or Palace. Westminster) walking or armchair variety. 9. Green Park (Green Park) Perhaps it will lead to a fuller 10. Thomas Coram Foundation (Russell ... And More understanding of the life and times Square) For the true Handelian who wishes of George Frideric Handel. to indulge in a pursuit of trivia: Handel Street in Bloomsbury, just north of the Coram Foundation. St. Andrew's Church, Holborn Tbe INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR CHORAL MUSIC organ case is from the organ (ACDA is one of 8 Founding Members) presented to Coram by Handel. Membership benefits: Church of the Holy Sepulchre, • Subscription to International Choral Bulletin Holborn Viaduct-organ supposedly • Information on choral activities, workshops, festivals, and seminars through played by Handel. out the world Sir John Soane Museum, Lincoln's Inn Fields-houses an eclectic col • Copies of World Census on Choral Music and of international festival lection. It contains a plaster programs and song books medalian of Handel and Hogarth's • Discount at IFCM-sponsored events such as the First World Symposium on "The Levee" with harpsichordist Choral Music, held in Vienna, Austria, August 11-18,1987 reputed to be Handel. • Participation in IFCM actitivies worldwide Cannons Treasures: St. John's Dues: Church, Hampstead-wrought iron gates in churchyard. Trinity Church, $20 for individuals; $50 for choirs. Rates for other categories available on request Gosport-purchased the "Jordan" For further information, write: organ from the chapel. It can still be seen, bear.ingthe Chandos crest. International Federation For Choral Music Victoria and Albert Museum-Gib Walter S. Collins, Secretary-General bons' "St. Stephen" from library. College 01 Music C.B. 301 Three Choirs Festival (Worcester, University 01 Colorado Boulder, CO 80309-0301 Gloucester, Hereford)-dates from U.S.A. 1724 and is the world's oldest sur September 1987 Page 39 CATALOGUE OF MAJOR ENGLISH COMPOSITIONS Notes WITH YEAR AND PLACE OF FIRST PERFORMANCE This listing is presented chronologically to facilitate tracing the relationship between venue and 1 Royal Society of Musicians, Handel in events in Handel's life. London (n.p.: Royal Society of Musicians, YEAR TITLE TYPE VENUE 1984), p. 7. 1711 Rinaldo opera Queen's Theater 2 John Mainwaring, Memoirs of the Life of 1712 11 Pastor Fido opera Queen's Theater the Late George Frederic Handel (London: R. 1713 Tesco opera Queen's Theater and J. Dodsley, 1760), pp. 95-96. 1713 "Birthday Ode for Queen Anne" ode no known perf. 3 Jacob Simon, ed., Handel: A Celebration 1713 Utrecht "Te Deum" anthem St. Paul's Cathedral of His Life and Times: 1685-1759 (London: 1715 Amadigi opera King's Theater National Portrait Gallery, 1985), p. 176. 1717 "Water Music" orchestral Thames River 4 Dublin Journal, 27 March 1742, quoted in 1717-18 "Chandos Anthems" anthems St. Lawrence Whit· Jonathan Keates, Handel: The Man and His church Music (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985), p. 1718 Acis and Galatea (revised 1732) masque Cannons 242. 1718 Esther (revised 1732) masque probably Cannons 5 Simon, Handel, pp. 86-88. 1720 Radamisto (Royal Academy) opera King's Theater 6 Ibid., p. 142. 1721 Floridante (Royal Academy) opera King's Theater 1 Mainwaring, Memoirs, p. 208. 1723 Ottone (Royal Academy) opera King's Theater 8 Simon, Handel, p. 249. 1723 Flavio (Royal Academy) opera King's Theater 9 Christopher Hogwood, Handel (London: 1724 Julius Caesar (Royal Academy) opera King's Theater Thames and Hudson, 1984), p. 232. 1724 Tamerlano (Royal Academy) opera King's Theater 1725 Rodelinda (Royal Academy) opera King's Theater Select Bibliography 1726 Scipione (Royal Academy) opera King's Theater 1726 Alessandro (Royal Academy) opera King's Theater Armstrong, Rev. Benjamin J. Some Ac· 1727 Admeto (Royal Academy) opera King's Theater count of the Parish of Little Stanmore 1727 "Coronation Anthems anthem Westminster Abbey (Edgeware, 1908). 1727 Ricardo Primo (Royal Academy) opera King's Theater Clark, Richard. Reminiscences of Handel, 1728 Siroe (Royal Academy) opera King's Theater His Grace the Duke of Chandos, Powells the 1728 Tolomeo (Royal Academy) opera King's Theater Harpers, the Harmonious Blacksmith, and 1729 Lotario opera King's Theater Others (London, 1836). 1730 Partenope opera King's Theater Coopersmith, J.M. 'A List of Portraits, 1731 Poro opera King's Theater Sculptures, etc., of Georg Friedrich Handel', 1732 Ezio opera King's Theater Music and Letters, XIII (Cambridge, Mass., 1732 Sosarme opera King's Theater 1932). 1733 Orlando opera King's Theater Dean, Winton. The New Grove Handel (Lon· 1733 Deborah oratorio King's Theater don, 1982). . 1733 Athalia oratorio King's Theater Flower, Newman. George Frideric Handel: 1734 Arianna opera King's Theater His Personality and His Times (London, 1923. 1734 Wedding Anthem "This is the Day" anthem Queen's Chapel, St. rev. 1959). James Hogwood, Christopher. Handel (London, 1735 Ariodante opera Covent Garden 1984). 1735 Alcina opera Covent Garden Keates, Jonathan. Handel: The Man and His 1735-6 Six Concertos, organ or harpsichord orchestral Covent Garden Music (London, 1985). 1736 "Alexander's Feast" ode Covent Garden King, A. Hyatt. Handel and His Autographs 1736 Atalanta opera Covent Garden (London, 1967). 1737 Arminio opera Covent Garden Landon, H.C. Robbins. Handel and His 1737 Guistino opera Covent Garden World (London, 1984). 1737 11 Trionfo del Tempo & dello Veritit oratorio Covent Garden Mainwaring, J. Memoirs of the Life of the 1737 Berenice opera Covent Garden Late George Frederic Handel (London, 1760). 1737 "Funeral Anthem for Queen Michelin Tyre PLC. London Tourist Guide Caroline " anthem Westminster Abbey (France, 1983). 1738 Faramondo opera King's Theater Nalbach, Daniel. The King's Theatre 1738 Serse opera King's Theater 1704·1867 (London, 1972). 1739 Saul oratorio King's Theater Royal Society of Musicians. Handel in Lon· 1739 Israel in Egypt oratorio King's Theater don (London, 1984). 1739 "Ode for St. Cecelia's Day" anthem Lincoln's Inn Fields Simon, Jacob, ed .. Handel: A Celebration of 1739 Twelve Grand Cqncertos orchestral Lincoln's Inn Fields His Life and Times (London, 1985). 1740 L'Aliegro, iI Penseroso ed iI Moderatooratorio Lincoln's Inn Fields Smith, William C .. Concerning Handel (Lon· 1740 Imeneo opera Lincoln's Inn Fields don, 1948). 1741 Deidamia opera Lincoln's Inn Field's Streatfeild, R. A .. Handel (New York, 1964). 1742 Messiah oratorio Dublin 1743 Samson oratorio Covent Garden 1743 Dettingen "Te Deum" anthem Chapel Royal, St. James 1744 Semele oratorio Covent Garden 1744 Joseph and His Brethren oratorio Covent Garden 1745 Hercules oratorio King's Theater 1745 Belshazzar oratorio King's Theater 1746 Occasional Oratorio oratorio Covent Garden 1747 Judas Maccabaeus oratorio Covent Garden 1748 Alexander Balus oratorio Covent Garden 1748 Joshua oratorio Covent Garden 1749 Susanna oratorio Covent Garden BUCKNELL 1749 Soloman oratorio Covent Garden A professional music program 1749 "Music for the Royal Fireworks" orchestral Green Park in an outstanding liberal·arts setting 1749 "Foundling Hospital Anthem anthem F.oundling Hospital full member: NASM 1750 Theodora oratorio Covent Garden BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY 1752 Jephtha oratorio Covent Garden Dept. of Music, Room 107 1757 The Triumph of Time and Truth oratorio Covent Garden Lewisburg, PA 17837
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