Handel Commemoration

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Handel festival or 'Commemoration' took place in Westminster Abbey in 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[1] and the Concert 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.