A collection of 14 programmes and other items concerts held at Windsor Castle, from 1843 to 1999. Though the majority of items in the collection are photostats from the "Winterbottom Album", the collection includes original programmes from the ninteenth and twentieth centuries.

The earliest item in the collection is a programme from a concert of oratorio items and cantatas, given on 10 February 1843. The next item in the collection is from the baptism of Prince George in 1865, though the programme has been mutilated. There is a full programme and performer's ticket from the Royal College of Music pupil's peformance of Le Roi l'a dit (Delibes) on 26 February 1895.

The collection includes photostats of various programmes from concerts given in the 1880s and 1890s, including programmes from performances given by students of the Royal College of Music.

There are three programmes from 1900 onwards, which are from opera performances or performances of musical-theatrical works.

1843 - 1999

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Not Specific

• Royal College of Music -

• Windsor
• Windsor Castle

• 19th century - early Victorian 1837-1850
• 19th century - late Victorian 1876-1899
• 19th century - mid Victorian 1851-1875
• 20th century - early 1900-1930
• 20th century - late 1971-1999

• Opera

Centre for Performance History Prince Consort Road London London SW7 2BS Bangladesh

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The Centre for Performance History was created in 2004 through the amalgamation of the Department of Portraits and the Museum of Instruments (see the separate entry for the Museum. The College has acquired portraits throughout its history since 1883 and the Centre posseses the most comprehensive collection of portraits of musicians in the UK, amounting to some 346 original portraits and 10,000 prints and photographs. In addition to the iconographical collections and their documentation, the department houses other categories of source material - most notably the largest collection of concert programmes in this country, comprising some 600,000 items dating from 1780 to the present day.