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NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE
A Concert in the City Hall
The BBC Symphony Orchestra
Leader, Paul Beard
Conductor,
SIR ADRIAN BOULT
God Save the King
(orchestration by Gerrard Williams )
Beethoven himself conducted the first performance of the Seventh Symphony on December 8, 1813. The concert was in aid of wounded
Austrian soldiers. In the same programme was the ' Battle' Symphony, in which was introduced Maelzel's mechanical instrument, the Panharmonicon. Playing in the orchestra were many famous musicians and composers, Romberg, Spohr, Mayseder, and Dragonetti were amongst the strings, Hummel and Meyerbeer (who always came in after the beat) played the drums, Moscheles had the cymbals, and Salieri kept time and order in the percussion department.