Handel Commemoration

1784 CE.

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The original 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. A series of further commemorations were held between 1785 and 1859.

Text from the Wikipedia article Handel Commemoration, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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