Premiere of Handel’s Royal Fireworks Music

Apr 27 1749 Premiere of Georg Frideric Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks, to celebrate the end of the War of the Austrian Succession and the signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748. PIC Giovanni Servandoni’s grand pavilion (which burned to the ground)
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