Address of Kneller Hall

Geographic Location: Lat: 51.45509; Long: -0.35079 - GeoTag: GB-RIC

 Kneller Hall 

Kneller Hall is an Entertainment Centre managed as a Event Venue by Royal Military School of Music and is located in or near Twickenham, England.

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The Royal Military School of Music (RMSM) and the home of the Headquarters Corps of Army Music occupies Kneller Hall - recognized as the home of Army music since its foundation in 1857 - near Twickenham, just 9 miles from central London.

The School was established at Kneller Hall, which had been acquired by the War Office a year earlier. Originally known as Whitton Hall, after the nearby village, the building is thought to have been designed by Sir Christopher Wren. It remained in private hands, undergoing several rebuilds, until it was bought by the government in 1850 to provide premises for "the training of schoolmasters who were to teach the children of paupers and criminals". It was one of the first Pestelozzi schools in England, but was conceptually ahead of its time and closed five years later, in 1855.

The Military School of Music quickly achieved the results desired by its founder and, thirty years after its foundation, during the Queen's Jubilee, was granted the title Royal, becoming the Royal Military School of Music. During its 150 years of existence the school has earned an international reputation as a centre of excellence and Kneller Hall has become the spiritual home of many generations of Army musicians. Over its long existence the school has remained at the forefront of military music.

Many thousands of Army musicians have passed through the gates and have been taught by the best professors of music available in the country at each point in time. The museum and the photograph board of all the Bandmaster classes show just how many people have spent a period of time at Kneller Hall. In certain points in time over 300 musicians would have been on the pupils course and nearly all will have performed on at least one legendary Summer Concert which are still going today in the form of "Concerts in the Park" 

 

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