Handel Commemoration
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title:
Handel Commemoration
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The Handel festival or "Commemoration" took place in Westminster Abbey between 26 May and 5 June 1784, to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of George Frideric Handel in 1759. The commemoration was organized by John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich and the Concerts of Antient Music and took the form of a series of concerts of Handel's music, given in the Abbey by vast numbers of singers and instrumentalists. Above Handel's own monument in the Abbey, there is a small additional ta
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Historical fact in England
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handel_Commemoration
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2023-06-12T17:39:14Z
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