Erection date: 24/3/2015
Joseph Haydn, 1732 - 1809, composer, lived in a house on this site, 1791.
The Haydn Society of Great Britain
W1, Great Pulteney Street, 18
The Conversation points out that this house was convenient for 3 addresses frequented by Hayden: Hanover Square Concert Rooms (where he performed), the King’s Theatre in the Haymarket (for which he wrote an opera) and the Catholic chapel in Golden Square, where he worshiped.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Joseph Haydn
Composer of the Classical period - prominent and prolific. Born Austria as F...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Joseph Haydn
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Greater London Council Karl Pearson, 1857 - 1936, pioneer statistician, lived here.
The unveiling of this plaque was reported in the East London Advertiser of 24 December 2009. Andrew Behan has researched the names on th...
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{On the plaque on the gate pier:} To the memory of William Gilbert Grace, the great cricketer, 1848 - 1915, these gates were erected by t...
Artist. Born Renate Hannah Meyer in Berlin. Her family came as refugees to Britain in 1933. She married fellow artist Charles Keeping.
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