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
George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) 1903 - 1950, lived and worked here as senior master of the former Hawthorn High School for Boys, April ...
Sorry about the poor picture of the shop but when we visited there was a solid wall of buses down Regent Street.
Both plaques are actually around the corner in Shakespeare Road.
Not the style, but the high quality of this plaque reminds us of the one in Bessborough Gardens, unveiled by the Prince of Wales the year...
