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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Site of St Leonard Eastcheap, destroyed in the Great Fire 1666. The Corporation of the City of London
Portland stone, 6 tonnes. CWO has more information about this bench.
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