Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Concert of Antient Music
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1776: A group of upper-class men founded the Concert...
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1776
A group of upper-class men founded the Concert of Antient Music
, to put on performances of Purcell
, Handel
(who was by now out of fashion), and seventeenth-century Italian composers.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.