The Buckingham Palace Concert on August 30, 1837, was a miracle in music history that is almost impossible to replicate, so much so that people often call it "Victoria's Night of Musical Coronation."
Music historians often say that if the musical geniuses of Europe at the time were depicted as a star map, then that night at Buckingham Palace was the location of the collapse of the Milky Way.
Mendelssohn, Chopin, Liszt, Talberg, Old John Strauss, Clara Novello, John Brahham, Henry Braggrof...
Each name here, taken alone, is enough to uphold a music school, yet they appeared on the same stage on the same night.
The lineup at the Buckingham Palace Concert was as grand as the gods descending from Olympus.
However, the true pinnacle of the night was not any individual soloist but the man referred to by later generations as the "Ear of the Empire"—Sir Arthur Hastings.
Arthur Hastings' "Wellington March" holds dual significance in music history.
