| No. | Year. | Place. | Conductors. | Principal Choral and Orchestral Works. |
| 1 | 1818 | Düsseldorf | Burgmüller | Haydn's Seasons and Creation. |
| 2 | 1819 | Elberfeld | Schornstein | Handel's Messiah; and Symphony 2, Beethoven. |
| 3 | 1820 | Düsseldorf | Burgmüller | Handel's Samson; and Eroica Symphony. |
| 4 | 1821 | Cologne | Do. | Schneider's Das Weltgericht; C minor Symphony, Beethoven. |
| 5 | 1822 | Düsseldorf | Do. | Stadler's Das befreite Jerusalem; and Symphony 4, Beethoven. |
| 6 | 1823 | Elberfeld | Schornstein | Handel's Jephthah, and Symphony 7, Beethoven. |
| 7 | 1824 | Cologne | F. Schneider | Schneider's Deluge; Symphony 4, Ries. |
| 8 | 1825 | Aix-la-Chapelle | F. Ries | Handel's Alexander's Feast; Symphony 9, Beethoven. |
| 9 | 1826 | Düsseldorf | Ries and Spohr | Spohr's Last Judgment; Messiah; Symphony in D, Ries. |
| 10 | 1827 | Elberfeld | Schornstein | Schneider's Paradise Lost; Symphony 5, Beethoven. |
| 11 | 1828 | Cologne | Ries and Klein | Klein's Jephta; Symphony 4, Beethoven. |
| 12 | 1829 | Aix | Ries | Creation; Symphony 4, Ries; and Eroica, Beethoven. |
| 13 | 1830 | Düsseldorf | Do. | Handel's Judas Maccabaeus; Symphony 5, Beethoven. |
| 14 | 1832 | Cologne | Do. | Handel's Samson; Symphony 7, Beethoven. |
| 15 | 1833 | Düsseldorf | Mendelssohn | Handel's Israel in Egypt; Pastoral Symphony, Beethoven. |
| 16 | 1834 | Aix | Ries | Handel's Deborah; Jupiter Symphony, Mozart; and part of 9, Beethoven. |
| 17 | 1835 | Cologne | Mendelssohn | Handel's Solomon; Symphony 8, Beethoven. |
| 18 | 1836 | Düsseldorf | Do. | Mendelssohn's St. Paul; Symphony 9, Beethoven. |
| 19 | 1837 | Aix | Ries | Handel's Belshazzar; Kings of Israel, Ries. |
| 20 | 1838 | Cologne | Mendelssohn | Handel's Joshua; Symphony in D, Mozart. |
| 21 | 1839 | Düsseldorf | Do. | Handel's Messiah; Eroica Symphony, Beethoven. |
| 22 | 1840 | Aix | Spohr | Handel's Judas; Symphony 7, Beethoven. |
| 23 | 1841 | Cologne | Kreutzer | Klein's David; Symphony 9, Beethoven. |
| 24 | 1842 | Düsseldorf | Mendelssohn | Handel's Israel; Lobgesang; Symphony 5, Beethoven. |
| 25 | 1843 | Aix | Reissiger | Handel's Samson; Symphony G minor, Mozart; Eroica, Beethoven. |
| 26 | 1844 | Cologne | Dorn | Handel's Jephthah; Missa Solemnis, Beethoven. |
| 27 | 1845 | Düsseldorf | Rietz | Handel's Joshua; Symphony 9, Beethoven. |
| 28 | 1846 | Aix | Mendelssohn | Creation; Alexander's Feast; Symphony 5, Beethoven. |
| 29 | 1847 | Cologne | Dorn and Spontini | Handel's Messiah; Symphony 7, Beethoven. |
| 30 | 1851 | Aix | Lindpaintner | Handel's Judas; Eroica Symphony, Beethoven. |
| 31 | 1853 | Düsseldorf | F. Hiller | Handel's Messiah; Symphony 9, Beethoven; and 4, Schumann. |
| 32 | 1854 | Aix | Lindpaintner | Handel's Israel; Symphony 7, Beethoven. |
| 33 | 1855 | Düsseldorf | Hiller | Creation; Paradise and Peri, Schumann; Symphony 5, Beethoven. |
| 34 | 1856 | Düsseldorf | Rietz | Mendelssohn's Elijah; Alexander's Feast; Symphony 9, Beethoven. |
| 35 | 1857 | Aix | Liszt | Handel's Messiah; Symphony in C, Schubert. |
| 36 | 1858 | Cologne | Hiller | Hiller's Saul; Walpurgisnacht; Eroica Symphony, Beethoven. |
| 37 | 1860 | Düsseldorf | Do. | Handel's Samson; Symphony 7, Beethoven; and 1, Schumann. |
| 38 | 1861 | Aix | F. Lachner | Beethoven's Missa Solennis; Joshua; Eroica Symphony, Beethoven. |
| 39 | 1862 | Cologne | Hiller | Handel's Solomon; Symphony 9, Beethoven. |
| 40 | 1863 | Düsseldorf | Otto Goldschmidt | Mendelssohn's Elijah; St. Cecilia's Ode; Symphony 5, Beethoven. |
| 41 | 1864 | Aix | Rietz | Handel's Belshazzar; Magnificat, Bach; Symphony 9, Beethoven. |
| 42 | 1865 | Cologne | Hiller | Handel's Israel; Symphony 7, Beethoven. |
| 43 | 1866 | Düsseldorf | O. Goldschmidt & Tausch | Handel's Messiah; Eroica Symphony, Beethoven. |
| 44 | 1867 | Aix | Rietz | Handel's Judas; Symphony 5, Beethoven. |
| 45 | 1868 | Cologne | Hiller | Handel's Messiah, Cantata, Bach; Symphony 9, Beethoven; 3, Schumann. |
| 46 | 1869 | Düsseldorf | Rietz | Handel's Joshua; Magnificat, Bach; Symphony 7, Beethoven. |
| 47 | 1870 | Aix | Lachner | Beethoven's Missa Solemnis; Eroica Symphony, Beethoven. |
| 48 | 1871 | Cologne | Hiller | Handel's Joshua; Symphony 9, Beethoven. |
| 49 | 1872 | Düsseldorf | Rubinstein | Handel's St. Cecilia's Ode; Tower of Babel, Rubinstein; Symphony 8, Beethoven; 4, Schumann. |
| 50 | 1873 | Aix | Rietz | Handel's Messiah; Symphony 9, Beethoven. |
| 51 | 1874 | Cologne | Hiller | Handel's Samson; Pastoral Symphony, Beethoven; and Italian, Mendelssohn. |
| 52 | 1875 | Düsseldorf | Joachim | Handel's Hercules; Missa Solennis; Symphony 1, Schumann. |
| 53 | l876 | Aix | Breunung | Handel's Solomon; Eroica Symphony, Beethoven. |
| 54 | 1877 | Cologne | Hiller | Haydn's Seasons; Symphony 9, Beethoven; and Hiller in C. |
| 55 | 1878 | Düsseldorf | Joachim | Schumann's Faust; Orpheus, Gluck; Symphony 2, Brahms. |
| 56 | 1879 | Aix | Breunung | Beethoven's Missa Solennis; Symphony 2, Schumann; 9, Schubert. |
| 57 | 1880 | Cologne | Hiller | Handel's Israel; Violin Concerto, Beethoven. |
| Thus Düsseldorf has held 20, Aiz 17, Cologne 16, and Elberfeld 3 Lower Rhenish Festivals. | ||||
| App. p.731 "Add the table the following particulars of the festivals since 1880:—" | ||||
| 58 | 1881 | Düsseldorf | Gade and Tausch | Handel's Samson; Gade's Zion and Symphony in B♭. |
| 59 | 1882 | Aix | Wüllner | Handel's Joshua; part of Bach's B minor Mass; Symphony, no. 9, Beethoven. |
| 60 | 1883 | Cologne | Hiller and Brahms | Haydn's Creation; Mendelssohn's Ps. cxiv; Symphonies, Eroica, Beethoven, and Brahms in D. |
| 61 | 1884 | Düsseldorf | Brahms and Tausch | Handel's Messiah; Bach's Magnificat; Brahms's Symphony in F; Beethoven's PF. Concerto no. 5. |
| 62 | 1885 | Aix | Reinecke and Kriese | Handel's Judas Maccabeus and Alexander's Feast; Beethoven's C minor Symphony. |
| 63 | 1886 | Cologne | Wüllner | Handel's Belshazzar; Symphonies, Beethoven no, 9. Mozart in E♭, and Brahms, no. 4. |
| 64 | 1887 | Düsseldorf | Richter and Tausch | Handel's Joshua; Bach's Ascension Cantata 'Lobet Gott'; Tausch's 'Miriam's Siegesgesang'; Beethoven's PF. Concerto in G; Symphonies, Beethoven's Eroica and Schumann's in B♭. |
| 65 | 1888 | Aix | Richter and Schwickerath | Messiah; Bach's 'Gottes Zeit'; Mendelssohn's Ps. cxiv; Bruch's 'Schön Ellen'; Finale 'Gotterdämmerung'; Brahms's Double Concerto; Symphony, no. 9, Beethoven. |
greater number of the instrumental performers. It is this circumstance which gives to this festival its peculiar excellence and beauty. From all the neighbouring towns and the whole country round the dilettanti were gathering, arriving in steamboats or Eilwagen, not to toil at an irksome ill-paid task, but for a great musical field-day, full of soul and song. All ranks and ages unite for the one harmonious end.… Add to this love of the art, good training, well cultivated taste, and general knowledge of music, and it is explained how such an effect is produced. You felt the life, the pulsation of this music, for their hearts as well as their understandings were in it. It was in this chorus and in this band that public interest was centred; the audience listened and enjoyed, but the amateur performers constituted the festival.'
The importance of these Rhine festivals, from an artistic point of view, was alluded to at the commencement of this record of them. The roll of eminent musicians of European fame who have conducted them alone claims such recognition; while the long catalogue of masterpieces performed, especially those for orchestra, in which English festivals are as a rule sadly deficient, is in itself an extraordinarily interesting and suggestive document. The following list of the number of times of performances of Beethoven's Symphonies at these Rhenish festivals gives a tolerably fair estimate of the proportionate admiration in which those masterpieces are held by the great composer's countrymen:—
| No. | 2, | performed | once. | No. | 5, | performed | eight times. |
| " | 4, | do. | twice. | " | 7, | do. | do. |
| " | 6, | do. | do. | " | 3, | do. | nine times. |
| " | 8, | do. | do. | " | 9, | do. | twelve times. |
App. p.731 "In the small list of symphonies at the end of the article, the right hand column should read as follows:—
| No. 5, | performed | nine times. |
| No. 7, | do. | eight times. |
| No. 3, | do. | eleven times. |
| No. 9, | do. | fourteen times. |
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