# Music for the Royal Fireworks is performed in 1749 for the Aix-la-Chapelle peace celebrations

Date: 1749

## The fact

In April 1749 [Handel](/people/george-frideric-handel)’s Music for the Royal Fireworks was performed for George II’s peace celebrations. This Fact is that public outdoor-music instrument, not Water Music and not a later recording.

It is one event.

## Context

A state peace entertainment is a cohesion object. Do not convert a fireworks accident into his welfare harm without a musical mechanism.

George Frideric Handel’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

The 27 April 1749 Green Park event is the public fireworks night; a rehearsal drew a crowd. Handel’s wind band scoring is the court brief. A later rain-and-fire mishap of the machine is a neighbouring spectacle, not his musical authorship of a unique casualty.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

British Library Handel pages and Britannica independently date the 1749 Fireworks music.

Official or archival record: British Library — George Frideric Handel (https://www.bl.uk/people/george-frideric-handel; British Library).

## Significance

A documented state outdoor score is a public-culture path. Confidence high on 1749.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1749 Royal Fireworks music as a public event. Not established: a unique injury table from the machine fire as this composition’s effect.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by George Frideric Handel.

They are not a public rating.

The driver `social-cohesion` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. George Frideric Handel did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Green Park is not Fishamble Street. Keep 1749 distinct from 1742. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of George Frideric Handel.

## People

- George Frideric Handel: https://factrail.ai/people/george-frideric-handel

## Drivers

- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://www.bl.uk/people/george-frideric-handel
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Frideric-Handel

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/gfh-royal-fireworks-1749