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Wellington Orchestral Society, 1900

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Wellington Orchestral Society, 1900

Players from the Wellington Orchestral Society are shown seated with their instruments on the stage of the original Wellington Opera House, in Manners Street, in October 1900. The conductor, J. Maughan Barnett, sits in the centre. Such orchestras were usually made up of the best local amateur players.

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Peter Walls, Orchestras – Nineteenth-century orchestras, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/44499/wellington-orchestral-society-1900 (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Peter Walls, published 14 March 2014.