A house for artists and musicians
No 3 Abbey Road was built in 1828 and is the third oldest house on the Eyre estate, after 8 Elm ...
Albert Ketelbey was an English composer, conductor and pianist, perhaps best known for his short pieces of light orchestral music, ...
Sir Thomas Beecham (1879-1961) Sir Thomas Beecham had a predilection for North-west London, St John’s Wood in particular. In 1910 ...
Composer, conductor and pianist
In 1952 Asbjorn Lunde attended the opera Dido and Anaeas which was being performed, with Kirsten Flagstad in the title ...
Damian Watcyn Lewis was born in February 1971 in Clifton Hill, St John’s Wood, the eldest son of John Watcyn ...
Dora Labbette was a well-known and much admired successful concert and opera singer during the period 1920/1943. She is best ...
In the summer of 1958 the French composer Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) stayed with the Pilkingtons who had been living at ...
Gervase de Peyer (1926 – 2017 ) was one of the foremost clarinettists of his generation, with a flair for playing ...
Henry Cummings was an Irish baritone who studied at the Royal Academy of Music, then later with John Coates. He ...
Katharine Goodson, born in Watford in 1875 , and known to her family as ‘Kaigee’, was an English pianist who ...
Born in Hampstead in 1915, she was an English composer and teacher of musical harmony who invented the colour staff ...
the creation of Bernard and Josephine Miles
Musicians & music makers who lived here in 19th & 20 C
There are several instances of artists and musicians coming together. For instance the Italian Sir Paolo Tosti (1846-1916) was a composer of salon ...
