Abstract
Joseph Haydn's visit to the charity children's Annual Service at St Paul's Cathedral moved him greatly, judging by the report he wrote of it in his 'London Notebook' (1791–2) and added to in his conversations with A. C. Dies. The date of this event has not been previously known, though it is usually said to have taken place in June 1792. New evidence has now established the exact date as Thursday 9 June 1791. The article deals with the kind of music performed on such occasions, and examines some of the background, referring in the process to William Blake's 'Holy Thursday' (Songs of Innocence, 1789), and to Hector Berlioz's account of his own visit 60 years later (Les soirees de l'orchestre, 1853).
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