The Birmingham Triennial Musical Festival, in Birmingham, England, founded in 1784, was the longest-running classical music festival of its kind. It last took place in 1912.
Birmingham Triennial Music Festival, Town Hall 1845
The Theatre Royal Birmingham in 1780
Birmingham Town Hall
Mendelssohn's 1840 sketch, showing scenes from Birmingham, including the Town Hall (top centre), and Dover
The Light of the World is an oratorio composed in 1873 by Arthur Sullivan. Sullivan wrote the libretto with the assistance of George Grove, based on the New Testament. The work was inspired by William
Birmingham Triennial Music Festival
…providing the chorus for the festivals, and sang at the premiere of Elijah. In 1873 the Festival commissioned Arthur Sullivan who composed his oratorio The Light of the World. The 1879 Festival commissioned a work from Max Bruch, Das Lied von der Glocke…
Illustration of the premiere
Sullivan in about 1870
The Light of the World, the painting that inspired the oratorio