In 2015, a building on Great Pulteney Street in Soho finally received London’s famous blue plaque. It marked the site of the house where the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn lived from January 1791 to July 1792.
Located in the middle of fashionable Soho, the house was conveniently close to the Hanover Square Concert Rooms, where Haydn was resident composer in a series of concerts. It was also within walking distance of the King’s Theatre in the Haymarket, for which he had been asked to write an opera, and a few minutes away from a Catholic chapel in Golden Square, where Haydn, the devout Catholic, could worship.
