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
This cast of characters also appear on the nearby St Paul's Choir school plaque, erected 5 years earlier when Claughton was still only a ...
Both plaques are actually around the corner in Shakespeare Road.
Hammersmith Palais opened as a roller skating rink in 1910. Later it served as an ice rink and, most famously, as a 'palais de danse' wit...
The high polish meant that we had to photo these plaques at a slant.
Virginia Clarke, one of her former flatmates, assisted with the unveiling of the plaque.
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