London Concert Halls in 1900: The Hanover Square Rooms

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Arthur H. Beavan continued his survey of London's musical entertainment, in Imperial London, published in 1901, with this look at the Hanover Square Rooms:

Earlier than the commencement of the nineteenth century no form of diversion was more in favour than concerts, the centre of whose attraction was Hanover Square, a locality always associated with the progress of the "divine art."

Here, circa 1770, John Gallini, one of the managers of Italian Opera, built a salon for music and dancing, destined to become for many years the home of the Philharmonic Concerts, and to be known far and near as the Hanover Square Rooms.

With the conversion of these Rooms into a club house, its musical traditions ceased, and St. James' Hall then became the head-quarters of melody, vocal and instrumental.

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