Erection date: 11/8/2013
The British Premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, commissioned by the Philharmonic Society of London, was given on 21 March 1825 in the Argyll Rooms Concert Hall on this site.
Royal Philharmonic Society
City of Westminster
W1, Regent Street, 252, NatWest Bank
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Beethoven's 9th
The 'Argyll Rooms' venue opened in 1806. A new building was designed, as par...
Composer. Born (we only have his baptism date) in Bonn (now Germany). His nin...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Beethoven's 9th
Created as the Philharmonic Society of London, it had an orchestra which init...
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
Greater London Council Lord Lugard, 1858-1945, colonial administrator, lived here, 1912-1919.
The plaque was stolen some years ago. In 1994 (300th birthday) the Voltaire Foundation got it put back.
Note that the bomb is not actually mentioned on the memorial.
Benjamin Britten O.M.,1913-1976, composer, lived here 1931-1933. English Heritage
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