Allitsen Road
Frances M. Allitsen, composer, lived nearby (Queen’s Terr) 19th C
Abbey Gardens
14 Margaret Hubicki, composer 20th C
Abbey Road
Neville Court, named after Neville Challoner, musician 19th C
8 Noel Eadie, soprano 20th C, Dora Labbette, soprano 20th C
3 EMI Recording Studios 20th C
St. Michael’s villa Alan Foley aka Giacomo Foli, opera singer 19th C
? Barton McGuckin, Irish tenor, 19th C
27 Zelia Trebelli, opera singer 19th C
? Isabel Jay, opera singer/actress 19th C
? Ben Davies, Welsh tenor 20th C
29 Edna May (Pettie), US actress and singer 20th C
31e Percy Heming, baritone 20th C
14 Mortimer Court Walter Legge, record producer and Nancy Evans, mezzo 20th C
37 Lyndenhurst Lansdowne Cottell, conductor St John’s Wood Society of Musicians 19th C
54 Madame Cipriani, singer and teacher 20th C
58 John and Audrey(née Mildmay) Christie, opera producers 20th C
58 Edward Downes, conductor 20th C
“ Miss Harbutt, Australian singer 20th C
62 James Henry Mapleson, opera impresario, 19th C
Abercorn Mews
? Boy George (George O’Dowd), singer/song-writer 20th C
Abercorn Place
1a Studio Harriet Cohen, pianist 20th C
16 Sgr Luigi Denza, composer, 19th/20th C
Acacia Gardens
3 Edric Cundell, singer 20th C
Acacia Road
23 Roger Quilter, composer 20th C
25 Karl Rankl, conductor 20th C
43a Bernard Miles, actor, impresario 20th C
Avenue Close
38 Dame Marie Tempest. soprano and actress 20th C
Avenue Road
46 Benno Moiseiwitsch, pianist 20th C
55 Dame Marie Tempest, singer and actress 20th C
Blenheim Road
13 Sir Charles Santley, baritone 19th C
16 Solomon (Cutner), pianist 20th C
Blenheim Terrace
44 David Atherton, conductor 20th C
52 Dr Florence Windebank, music teacher 20th C
Boundary Road
? Ella Russell, US soprano 19th C
21 Richard James Pitcher, organist 20th C
Carlton Hill
8 Dame Myra Hess, pianist 20th C
41 Margaret Hubicki, composer 20th C
70 Dora Labbette, soprano 20th C
72a Leonard N Fowles, organist 20th C
Cavendish Avenue
2 Joan Cross, soprano 20th C
Sir Paul McCartney, singer/song-writer 20th C
? Billy Fury (Ronald Wycherley), pop singer 20th C
Cavendish Close
23 Dame Myra Hess, pianist 20th C
Circus Road
39 Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor & Lady Beecham (Betty Humby), pianist 20th C
Clifton Hill
21 Percy French, composer 19th C
53 Christopher West, opera producer 20th C
105 Sir Arthur Somervell, composer 20th C
Elm Tree Road
11 Mrs Emmie Tillett, concert agency director 20th C
Max Jaffa, violinist & bandleader and wife
Jean (née Gluckstein) Jaffa, known professionally as Jean Grayston, contralto 20th C
Finchley Road
27 Lillian Nordica, US soprano 19th C
57 Villa Favart Florence St John, soprano 19th C
? Sofia Scalchi, Italian operatic contralto 19th C
Greville Road
36 Maria Korchinska, Russian harpist 20th C
Grove Road (now Lisson Grove)
? Malibran, Spanish mezzo-soprano 19th C
Grove End Road
8 Acomb Lodge Harold Craxton , pianist/composer 20th C and daughter
Janet Craxton, oboist 20th C
23 Joseph Joachim, violinist 19th C
31 Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor and Lady Beecham (Betty Humby), pianist 20th C
40 Loudoun Hall (site of St John and St Elizabeth Hospital)
Teresa Tietjens, German soprano 19th C
Eyre Arms Tavern Assembly Rooms
St John’s Wood Oratorio Concerts, conductor Mr. Frank Mori
Hall Road
5 Sir Edward German, composer 20th C
Hamilton Close
4 Lord Mervyn Horder, composer/publisher 20th C
5 John Joel, concert agent 20th C
Hamilton Gardens
44 Algernon Ashton, composer 20th C
Hamilton Terrace
5 Sir Charles Santley, baritone 19th C
William Whitehouse, cellist 20th C
10 Sir Charles Mackerras, orchestral conductor & Lady Judy (née Wilkins), clarinettist 20th C
14 Hans Wessely, Austrian violinist 19th C
Philip Jones, trumpeter 20th C
16 Raymond Leppard, conductor and harpsichordist 20th C
20 Sir George Alexander MacFarren, composer 19th C
30 Theodore Lierhammer, Polish baritone 19th C
36 William Shakespeare, professor of singing, 19th C
40 Kathleen Ferrier, contralto 20th C
Gerald Moore, piano accompanist 20th C
42 Dame Maggie Teyte, lyric soprano 20th C
45 Lily Henkel, pianist 20th C
48 John Boosey, music publisher 19th C
51 Imogen Cooper, pianist 20th C
55 Norman Salmond, baritone 19th C
Felix Salmond, cellist 19th C
64 Carolina Geisler-Schubert, pianist 19th C
72 Lady Jessie Wood, companion to Sir Henry Wood 20th C
76 Eugene Goossens, conductor/composer 20th C
91 Sir Frederick Cowen, composer 20th C
93 Gerald Finzi composer 20th C
121 Lord Harewood, opera administrator with 2nd wife Patricia Tuckwell, violinist 20th C
137 Jennifer Vyvyan, soprano 20th C
147 Phyllis Spurr, accompanist 20th C
Upper Hamilton Terrace (now incorporated into HamiltonTerrace)
32 Thomas Beecham, conductor and Mrs Utica Beecham 20th C
Langford Close
5 Sir Robert Mayer, concert promoter and Dorothy (née Moulton) Mayer, soprano 20th C
Langford Place
3 Dame Marie Tempest, soprano 19th C
Ada Crossley, Australian singer 20th C
4c Sir Robert Mayer, concert promoter and Dorothy (née Moulton) Mayer, soprano 20th C
12 Pauline Donalda, Canadian prima donna 20th C
?? Gervase de Peyer, English clarinetist & conductor 20th C
Loudoun Road
? Ella Russell, US soprano 19th C
15 Natasha Litvin, pianist, 20th C
Marlborough Hill
33 Arthur Friedheim, Russian pianist, 19th C
? Ella Russell, US soprano 19th C
44 Dora Labbette, soprano 20th C
Marlborough Place
9 Zelia Trebelli, French mezzo-soprano 19th C
24 Antoinette Sterling, US contralto 19th C
59 Anne Wood, contralto, Joanna Peters, singing teacher 20th C
59c Benjamin Britten, pianist, conductor,composer and Peter Pears, tenor 20th C
8 The Lane Sir Arthur Bliss, conductor and composer 20th C
Ordnance Hill
44 studio Humphrey Searle, composer 20th C
Park Road
? François Joseph Dizi, Belgian harpist and conductor 19th C
Prince Albert Road
22 Portland Terrace (now North Gate)
Richard Wagner , German composer 19th C
Queen’s Terrace
10 Ernest Crampton, composer 20th C
St Ann’s Terrace
21 Marc Wilkinson, Australian composer 20th C
St John’s Wood High Street
45a Benjamin Britten, composer and Peter Pears, tenor 20th C
St John’s Wood Park
? Walter Hyde, tenor 20th C
10 Louise Kirkby Lunn, contralto 20th C
? Humphrey Searle, composer 20th C
St John’s Wood Road
14 Arthur Hinton, composer 20th C married to
Katharine Goodson, pianist 20th C
37 Agnes Nicholls, soprano married to
Sir Hamilton Harty, Irish conductor 20th C
37 George Weldon, conductor 20th C
66 Sir William Sterndale Bennett, composer 19th C
15 St John’s Wood Court,
George Baker, baritone, married to Olive Groves, soprano 20th C
Wellington Road
? Fanny Davies, pianist 19th C
52 Sir Paolo Tosti, Italian song composer 19th C
Woronzow Road
? Geoffrey Burgon, composer 20th C
For further details of these musicians see under Music in the Wood
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