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.
Above Handel's own monument in the Abbey, there is a small additional tablet to record the commemoration. An account of the commemoration was published by Charles Burney in the following year (1785).
The commemoration established a fashion for large-scale performances of Handel's choral works throughout the nineteenth century and much of the twentieth. E.D. Mackerness (in A Social History of English Music) described it as "the most important single event in the history of English music".
References
E.D. Mackerness, A Social History of English Music, London, 1964.
H. Diack Johnstone, A Ringside Seat at the Handel Commemoration. Musical Times, Vol. 125, No. 1701 (Nov., 1984), pp. 632–633+635-636
William Weber, The 1784 Handel Commemoration as Political Ritual. Journal of British Studies, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Jan., 1989), pp. 43–69
Pierre Dubois, Reviews of the Handel Commemoration of 1784: Discourse and Reception.
Charles Burney, An Account of the Musical Performances in Westminster-Abbey (London: Payne, 1785)
Handel's monument at Westminster Abbey 14 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine
by Donald Burrows
by William Weber
February 14, 2023
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