In Dublin? Our portrait of the singer Richard Leveridge is at Dublin Castle until Feb 17 as part of an exhibition of works by Irish artist Thomas Frye dublincastle.ie/series/neglect… Foundling Museum IAML/AIBM MLAG

🎹 Ensemble Molière bring a programme of beautiful and rarely heard collections of 18th-century French Baroque chamber music paired with its more well-known counterparts @foundlingmuseum on 24 March london-handel-festival.com/show/2024-ense…

Happy Birthday Handel! Our display 'Handel's will: love and legacy' shows his generous support of the #FoundlingHospital, leaving a score and parts of #Messiah in his will, so benefit concerts could continue after his death Foundling Museum IAML/AIBM Petroc Trelawny UK Critics' Circle Music

Conspicuously absent from Handel's will is the artist Joseph Goupy, perhaps due to this unkind image of Handel which damaged their friendship. Find out more in our display 'Handel's will: love and legacy' Foundling Museum IAML (UK & Ireland) RISM Erica Jeal Richard Morrison MLAG

Tonight the #LondonHandelFestival opens with Handel's oratorio Esther at his church. Here's the front page of the wordbook the audience had for the 1732 performance, from the #GeraldCokeHandelCollection Foundling Museum LondonHandelFestival IAML (UK & Ireland) RISM UK Critics' Circle Music

Join the LondonHandelFestival on Sunday 24 March for an afternoon concert by Ensemble Molière and a talk introducing the #Handel's Will display at the Foundling Museum Foundling Museum IAML (UK & Ireland) UK Critics' Circle Music RISM Making Music UK

The The English Concert performs Handel's Brockes Passion at the London Handel Festival tonight. This 1867 programme from Stuttgart in the #GeraldCokeHandelCollection has a note in English by the original owner 'This was sung splendidly' LondonHandelFestival Foundling Museum RISM

Traditionally hot cross buns were eaten on Good Friday. Luffmann Atterbury, appointed music master at the Foundling Hospital in 1773, is credited with composing the popular song. You can listen to it here youtube.com/watch?v=XxiZOl… Foundling Museum IAML (UK & Ireland)

This one's for the music history buffs 🎼 Peek into the fascinating artefacts housed in the Gerald Coke and Handel collection that tell us about music, philanthropy and the Foundling Hospital with Librarian Katharine Hogg. ow.ly/SMZi50R6tN5

Happy May Day! This song by John Webb, published around 1775, was recently added to the #GeraldCokeHandelCollection Foundling Museum RISM IAML (UK & Ireland)

John Christopher Smith, composer and organist, was Handel's agent and copyist, succeeding his father of the same name. In his will Handel left his 'musick books' to Smith Sr, and they passed to his son, shown in this portrait by Zoffany Foundling Museum RISM IAML (UK & Ireland)

Dive into the intriguing personal life of a Baroque master 🎼 Our display 'Handel's Will: Love & Legacy' is set to close in just one month. Here's Gerald Coke Handel Foundation Librarian Katharine Hogg telling us what makes this historic document significant. Catch it before it's gone!

Handel's will included a bequest to the apothecary John Gowland, inventor of Gowland's Lotion, which claimed to improve the complexion and remove freckles. The Lotion is mentioned in Jane Austen's novel Persuasion.

The night before the election...an etching by Cruickshank in the #GeraldCokeHandelCollection Foundling Museum IAML (UK & Ireland) MLAG

18th-century vote-chasing included hosting Election Balls, as depicted in this image by George Cruickshank in the #GeraldCokeHandelCollection Foundling Museum MLAG IAML (UK & Ireland)

Henry Carey's song 'The Free Election' in this 1767 edition at #GeraldCokeHandelCollection Foundling Museum. The text still relevant today IAML (UK & Ireland) MLAG

OTD 1824 at a concert in Cambridge's Senate House, the crowds were so great the performers entered through a window. This image in the #GeraldCokeHandelCollection shows the singer Catalani and the Bishop of Limerick RISM Foundling Museum MLAG

Music lovers – our new Gerald Coke Handel Foundation display is particularly noteworthy 🎵 Learn more and book your tickets: ow.ly/1V6v50SCph3

Booking is now open for the Handel Institute Study Day ‘Handel’s Deidamia: Myth, Literature, Music’, in partnership with Gerald Coke Handel Foundation. Thursday 28 November 2024, 10am–5pm, at The Foundling Museum, London. Advance booking is obligatory. handelinstitute.org/about/study-da…

Tonight BBC Proms Handel's Messiah; here's the wordbook (programme) from the very first performance in Dublin in 1742, from the #GeraldCokeHandelCollection Foundling Museum