- For the hall in Edinburgh see Queen's Hall, Edinburgh.
The
Queen's Hall was a concert hall in
Langham Place, London, opened in 1893. Designed by the architect
Thomas Knightley, it had room for an audience of about 2,500 people. It became London's principal concert venue. From 1895 until 1941, it was the home of the
promenade concerts ("The Proms") founded by
Robert Newman together with
Henry Wood. The hall had drab decor and cramped seating but superb acoustics. It became known as the "musical centre of the [British]
Empire", and the leading musicians of the late 19th and early 20th century performed there, including
Claude Debussy,
Edward Elgar,
Maurice Ravel and
Richard Strauss.