London blue plaques

Music

70 of the 1,001 English Heritage blue plaques on this map are classified as Music. The earliest was erected in 1909, the most recent in 2024. They are most concentrated in Westminster, Camden, Kensington and Chelsea and Hampstead. Every name below links to that plaque's page, with its inscription, address and location on the map.

• Bob Marley 1945–1981 · Singer · 42 Oakley Street, Chelsea · erected 2019
• Freddie Mercury 1946–1991 · Musician · 22 Gladstone Avenue, Feltham · erected 2016
• Benjamin Britten 1913–1976 · Composer · 173 Cromwell Road, SW5 Kensington & Chelsea · erected 2001
• Béla Bartók 1881–1945 · Composer · 7 Sydney Place, South Kensington, Kensington and Chelsea, SW7 · erected 1997
• Edvard Grieg 1843–1907 · Composer · 47 North Side, Clapham Common · erected 2004
• Edward Elgar 1857–1934 · Composer · 51 Avonmore Road, Hammersmith and Fulham, W14 · erected 1962
• Felix Mendelssohn 1809–1847 · Composer · 4 Hobart Place, SW1W 0HU · erected 2013
• Frédéric Chopin 1810–1849 · Composer · 4 St James's Place, Westminster, SW1 · erected 1981
• George Frideric Handel 1685–1759 · Composer · 25 Brook Street, Westminster, W1 · erected 2001
• Gustav Holst 1874–1934 · Composer · St Paul's Girls' School, Brook Green, Hammersmith and Fulham, W8 · erected 2004
• Ivor Novello 1893–1951 · Composer · 11 Aldwych, Westminster, WC2 · erected 1973
• Jean Sibelius 1865–1957 · Composer · 15 Gloucester Walk, Kensington, Kensington and Chelsea, W8 · erected 1995
• Adelaide Hall 1901–1993 · 1 Collingham Road, South Kensington · erected 2024
• Adrian Boult 1889–1983 · Conductor · 78 Marlborough Mansions, Cannon Hill, West Hampstead, Camden, NW6 · erected 1998
• Al Bowlly 1899–1941 · Singer · Charing Cross Mansions, 26 Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0DG · erected 2013
• Arnold Bax 1883–1953 · Composer · 13 Pendennis Road, Streatham, Lambeth, SW16 · erected 1993
• Cecil Sharp 1859–1924 · Collector of English folk songs and dances · 4 Maresfield Gardens, Camden, NW3 · erected 1985
• Charles Gounod 1818–1893 · Composer · 17 Morden Road, Blackheath, SE3
• Charles Villiers Stanford 1852–1924 · Composer · 56 Hornton Street · erected 1961
• Charles Wesley 1707–1788 · Divine · 1 Wheatley Street, Westminster, W1 · erected 1953
• Constant Lambert 1905–1951 · Composer · 197 Albany Street, Regent's Park, Camden, NW1 · erected 1997
• Elisabeth Welch 1904–2003 · Singer · Flat 1, Ovington Court · erected 2012
• Eric Coates 1886–1957 · Composer of By The Sleepy Lagoon · Chiltern Court, Baker Street, NW1 5SG · erected 2013
• Frank Bridge 1879–1941 · Composer · 4 Bedford Gardens, Kensington and Chelsea, W8 · erected 1989
• Frederick Delius 1862–1934 · Composer · 44 Belsize Park Gardens, Camden, NW3 · erected 1999
• Herbert Howells 1892–1983 · Composer · 3 Beverley Close, Barnes · erected 2011
• Hubert Parry 1848–1918 · Musician · 17 Kensington Square, Kensington and Chelsea, W8 · erected 1949
• Malcolm Sargent 1895–1967 · Conductor · Albert Hall Mansions, Kensington Gore, Kensington and Chelsea, SW7 · erected 1992
• Arthur Bliss 1891–1975 · Composer · East Heath Lodge, 1 East Heath Road, Hampstead · erected 1993
• Bert Ambrose 1896–1971 · Dance band leader · The May Fair Hotel, Stratton Street, Westminster, W1 · erected 2005
• Charles Santley 1834–1922 · Singer · 13 Blenheim Road, Westminster, NW8 · erected 1935
• Clara Butt 1873–1936 · Singer · 7 Harley Road, Camden, NW3 · erected 1969
• Dennis Brain 1921–1957 · Horn player · 37 Frognal, Hampstead, Camden, NW3 · erected 1995
• Eugène Goossens 1912–1927 · Musician · 70 Edith Road
• Gracie Fields 1898–1979 · Singer · 72A Upper Street, Islington, N1 0NY · erected 2011
• Hector Berlioz 1803–1869 · Composer · 58 Queen Anne Street, Westminster, W1 · erected 1969
• Henry Hall 1898–1989 · Dance band leader · 38 Harman Drive, Cricklewood, Barnet · erected 2003
• Henry Willis 1821–1901 · Organ builder · 9 Rochester Terrace, Camden, NW1 · erected 1986
• Henry Wood 1869–1944 · Musician · 4 Elsworthy Road · erected 1969
• Jenny Lind 1820–1887 · Singer · 189 Old Brompton Road · erected 1909
• Jimi Hendrix 1942–1970 · Guitarist · 23 Brook Street, Mayfair, Westminster, W1 · erected 1997
• John Ireland 1879–1962 · Composer · 14 Gunter Grove, Kensington and Chelsea · erected 1996
• John Lennon 1940–1980 · Musician · 34 Montagu Square · erected 2010
• John McCormack 1884–1945 · Tenor · 24 Ferncroft Avenue, NW3
• Julius Benedict 1804–1885 · Composer · 2 Manchester Square, Westminster, W1 · erected 1934
• Kathleen Ferrier 1912–1953 · Contralto · 97 Frognal, Hampstead, Camden, NW3 · erected 1979
• Krystyna Skarbek 1908–1952 · Special Operations Executive Agent · 1 Lexham Gardens, Kensington · erected 2020
• Leslie Hutchinson 1900–1969 · Singer · 31 Steeles Road, Chalk Farm, NW3 4RE · erected 2012
• Lionel Tertis 1876–1975 · Viola player · 42 Marryat Road, Wimbledon, SW19 · erected 2015
• Michael Costa 1808–1884 · Conductor · 59 Eccleston Square, SW1
• Michael Flanders 1922–1975 · Songwriter · 1 Scarsdale Villas, Kensington · erected 2018
• Michael William Balfe 1808–1870 · Composer · 12 Seymour Street · erected 1911
• Muzio Clementi 1752–1832 · Composer · 128 Kensington Church Street, Kensington and Chelsea, W8 · erected 1963
• Myra Hess 1890–1965 · Pianist · 48 Wildwood Road, Barnet, NW11 · erected 1987
• Nellie Melba 1861–1931 · Australia's Queen of Song · Coombe House, Devey Close, Coombe
• Noor Inayat Khan 1914–1944 · Special Operations Executive Agent · 4 Taviton Street, Bloomsbury · erected 2020
• Noël Coward 1899–1973 · Songwriter · 131 Waldegrave Road, Teddington
• Percy Grainger 1882–1961 · Composer · 31 King's Road, Chelsea · erected 1988
• Peter Warlock 1894–1930 · Composer · 30 Tite Street · erected 1984
• Ralph Vaughan Williams 1872–1958 · Composer · 10 Hanover Terrace, Regent's Park, Westminster, NW1 · erected 1972
• Richard Tauber 1891–1948 · Lyric tenor · Park West, Edgware Road, (Kendal Street elevation) Westminster, W2 · erected 1998
• Ronnie Scott 1927–1996 · 39 Gerrard Street, Soho · erected 2019
• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 1875–1912 · Composer of The Song of Hiawatha · 30 Dagnall Park, South Norwood, Croydon, SE25 · erected 1965
• Thomas Arne 1710–1778 · Composer · 31 King Street, Covent Garden, Westminster, WC2 · erected 1988
• Thomas Beecham 1879–1961 · Conductor · 31 Grove End Road, St John's Wood, Westminster · erected 1985
• Tobias Matthay 1858–1945 · Teacher · 21 Arkwright Road, Hampstead, NW3
• William Sterndale Bennett 1816–1875 · Composer · 38 Queensborough Terrace, Bayswater, Westminster, W2 · erected 1996
• William Walton 1902–1983 · Composer of Facade, Belshazzar's Feast & the Coronation Marches of 1937 and 1953 · Lowndes Cottage, 8 Lowndes Place, Belgravia, SW1X 8DD
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756–1791 · Composer · 180 Ebury Street · erected 1939
• Yehudi Menuhin 1916–1999 · 65 Chester Square · erected 2023