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[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]Handel and The Foundling Hospital
After many years of struggle, in 1741 the Hospital for the Maintenance and Education of Exposed and Deserted Young Children – or The Foundling Hospital as it became known – opened its doors to the destitute infants of London. It depended for its maintenance not only on wealthy benefactors but also on artists who contributed their talents to raising funds for the charity. Amongst these artists was the musician, George Frideric Handel.
The Foundling Hospital no longer exists, having been demolished in 1928. However, next to the original Hospital site is
There are a number of reasons why Handel may have felt drawn to support The Foundling Hospital through his charitable concerts.
Handel grew up in Halle in Saxony. He would have been aware of the inspirational, progressive orphanage there, founded by Professor Francke.
George Frideric Handel began his association with The Foundling Hospital almost ten years after its opening. He is mentioned for the first time in the minutes of a meeting of The Foundling Hospital’s General Committee on 4th May 1749. The Committee thanks Handel for generously and charitably offered a performance of vocal and instrumental music to be held at this Hospital, and that the money arising therefrom should be applied to the finishing the Chapel of the Hospital May, 1749 Handel conducted his first concert in the Chapel itself. The sell-out performance was attended by the Prince and Princess of Wales, and raised more than £350 for the Foundling Hospital. Handel’s specially-composed piece, Blessed are they that considereth the poor and needy, soon became known as The Foundling Hospital Anthem.
The next year, 1750, Handel conducted a performance of his Messiah in the same Chapel. In order to squeeze more guests into the Chapel [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Handel requested that ladies remove the hoops from their skirts and gentlemen remove their swords. Despite these requests, so many tickets were over-sold that many ticket-holders were turned away. Handel gladly repeated the concert two weeks later, resulting in £1 [link widoczny dla zalogowanych],000 from both concerts.
The Foundling Hospital was created to provide a home for the thousands of children abandoned on the streets of 18th century London. Its founder, Thomas Coram, was a successful shipwright of humble origins who, despite his class and trade, eventually managed to encourage the sympathetic elite of London to support his cause.
Handel’s Messiah at The Foundling Hospital
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Inspiration for Handel’s Charitable Works
After his generous musical contribution to The Foundling Hospital, Handel soon became a Governor of the institution. Messiah, which had not been well received on its first performance in 1743, became an annual event. Despite eventually being unable to conduct due to illness, Handel attended every performance until his death in 1759.
Handel will have been aware of Antonio Vivaldi’s charity work in the 1730s. Vivaldi was the concert master to the Pieta orphanage in Venice where he trained a choir of young women to sing his compositions exquisitely, thus resulting in many rich patrons for the Pieta.Handel at The Foundling Museum, London
The Creation of The Foundling Hospital
His music publisher, John Walsh, was elected as a Governor of The Foundling Hospital in 1748 and may have influenced Handel, who was childless, to become musically involved in the charity.
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