Charles Hallé
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Sir Charles Hallé was a Prussian and later British pianist and conductor, best known for founding the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester.
Charles Hallé
Hallé as a young man, by Victor Mottez
Programme for the first Hallé concert
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
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Royal Liverpool Philharmonic is a music organisation based in Liverpool, England, that manages a professional symphony orchestra, a concert venue, and extensive programmes of learning through music. I
Charles Hallé
…Hall, which became the orchestra's main base for more than a century. The Hallé, by some accounts, is Britain's oldest symphony orchestra, although the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic also claims the title. The oldest symphony orchestra in London, the LSO, was not founded until nearly half a century after the Hallé. Kennedy comments…
Philharmonic Hall Liverpool
Interior of the first Philharmonic Hall, 1849
Bruno Walter and the teenage prodigy Yehudi Menuhin, 1931