 Handel Commemoration

The Handel festival or "Commemoration" took place in Westminster Abbey between May 26 and June 5, 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.