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LocationOxford, England
OwnerWadham College, Oxford
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MaterialWood and stone
Holywell Music Room is located in Oxford city centre
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Location of The Holywell Music Room within central Oxford
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), who performed in the Holywell Music Room

The Holywell Music Room is the city of Oxford's chamber music hall, situated on Holywell Street in the city centre, and is part of Wadham College. It is said to be the oldest purpose-built music room in Europe, and hence Britain's first concert hall.

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followed by recitals in Oxford (Holywell Music Room, October 1980, with Jonathan Katz, harpsichord) and London (Purcell Room, April 1979, with pianist John...

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Francis Grier

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2016 they played at All Souls, Oxford, and in the Holywell Music Room for the Oxford Chamber Music Society. In 2017 they performed the Beethoven Triple...

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the League was invite Morris and Eleanor Marx to a meeting at the Holywell Music Room. This was the occasion of Morris’s first major unscripted speech...

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