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...
The plaque was a foundation stone laid into the wall of the building but it now serves as a memorial to the building which was demolished...
Chaim Weizmann, 1874 - 1952, scientist and statesman, first president of the state of Israel lived here. Greater London Council
Beautiful filigree carved text. Compare the typeface with that at Abbaye de la Cambre. This was erected the year after Charlotte died ...
We love the repeated "etc."s to indicate the Duke's excessively long list of honours, etc. (now we're at it!).
From Survey of London: This building, designed by A. W. Blomfield, was erected in 1864-5 as a vicarage. Enlarged in 1869, it was converte...
London County Council F. E. Smith, Earl of Birkenhead, 1872 - 1930, lawyer and statesman, lived here.
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