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 is actually high up on the Gracechurch Street frontage. The Cornhill Standard was a water pump, so important that round about...
This must be one of the most colourful corners of London.In 1976 Palin and Gilliam bought these offices as studios and editing suite for ...
There are 10 memorials in this area around the the war memorial building in our photo. The two pier heads are to the right of the buildin...
We first took a photograph of this plaque some time ago, before it was stolen in March 2011, but then replaced with an almost identical c...
84 Charing Cross Road. The booksellers Marks & Co. were on this site which became world renowned through the book by Helene Hanff.
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