Westminster Abbey: interior looking east during the Royal Music Festival, 1834. Wood engraving by Sly and Wilson, 1843.

Four performances were given as the Royal Music Festival in Westminster Abbey on 24, 26 and 28 June and 1 July 1834, conducted by Sir George Smart. The performances were all three-part concerts of sacred music, the fourth being a performance of Handel, The Messiah. The second and third concerts both included the first English performances of arias by Mozart (from David Penitente and the Litany in B flat). Proceeds were divided between the Royal Society of Musicians, The New Musical and Choral Funds and the Royal Academy of Music.