A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Melophonic Society, The
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MELOPHONIC SOCIETY, THE. Established 1837, 'for the practice of the most classical specimens of choral and other music,' by band and choir, under the management of J. H. Griesbach, H. Westrop, J. Surman, and H. J. Banister. The first performance, on Nov. 23, 1837, at Wornum's Music Hall, Store Street, was the Creation, followed during the season by Beethoven's Mass in C, Romberg's Ode 'The Transient and the Eternal,' Judas Maccabæus, and St. Paul. In subsequent years the programmes comprised works of smaller dimensions, including Beethoven's Choral Fantasia.
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