Charles Frederick Hall

Charles Frederick Hall (18 December 1815 – 9 February 1874) was an English musician and musical director of the Adelphi Theatre, London.

By the early fall of 1842, Hall earned the position of second leader in the Drury Lane Theatre orchestra "after a contest of skill.

"[10] The Morning Chronicle singled out for praise two other of Hall's vocal pieces, calling the first "an elegant little ballad with an expressive melody" and the second "a graceful fairy song, light, airy, and imaginative.

[17] The professional musicians who accompanied Lind had been specially selected by Hall from the Covent Garden Opera House, Drury Lane Theatre, and the Royal Philharmonic Society.

Hall and Howlett booked two international singers for the concerts: mezzo-soprano Jetty Treffz and baritone Johann Baptist Pischek.

[21] Hall's wife, Ellen Vining, made her stage debut at the first concert, in which she sang soprano in a trio and accompanied Jetty Treffz on the piano.

"[23] Later that same year, the Choral Society of Norwich staged a benefit concert of Handel's Messiah expressly in aid of Hall and his partner.

[26] The Era, the London weekly covering theatrical news, referred to Hall as "the well-known conductor at the Princess's Theatre" in February 1867.