Birmingham Musical Festival
Birmingham's fine Town Hall, built to house the Triennial Music Festival, was designed by Joseph Hansom, inventor of the Hansom cab, and was completed in 1834. The inspiration for the building came from the Temple of Castor and Pollux in Rome, depicted in Palladio's treatises on architecture. The imposing structure was brick-built and faced with Anglesey marble.
Taylor states that the architects, then unknown won a competition in 1830 for the project with a fine classical revival design based on the Temple of Castor and Polux in the Roman Forum. Although the building was sufficiently complete to be opened in 1834, such were the contracting costs that the architects Hansom and Welch were brought to bankruptcy and the job was passed on to Charles Edge.
The new Town Hall opened, on 7th October a musical festival was held to raise funds for the General Hospital. Receipts for the first day amounted to roughly £3000.
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