Handel Hendrix House
Two neighbours separated by 200 years share one Mayfair address: George Frideric Handel (1723–59) and Jimi Hendrix (1968–69). The museum stitches their worlds together—a Baroque composer’s working home and a late-60s musician’s first London ‘place of his own’. Expect compact rooms, live music drop-ins, and sharp interpretation that makes the staircase feel like a time tunnel from candlelight to Carnaby Street.
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What's not to miss inside?
Handel’s Composition Room
Where major works were written and rehearsedHandel ran his career from this room—writing, hiring singers, even rehearsing small ensembles at the window.
📍 Handel side, first floor front
Hendrix’s Bedroom
A 1969 London musician’s life in one roomRecreated from period photos and receipts, it blends Persian rugs, records, and a modest stereo—more sanctuary than star suite.
📍 Hendrix flat, top floor
Handel’s Domestic Suite
How a successful 18th-century composer lived and hostedDining and drawing rooms show the business of music: patron dinners, manuscript deals, and theatre gossip.
📍 Ground and first floors, Handel side
Live Music Moments
Sound brings the house to lifeHarpsichord recitals and guitar sets compress centuries into a single stairwell echo.
📍 Rotates between rooms
Inspire your Friends
- Handel lived here for 36 years and is widely believed to have composed parts of ‘Messiah’ in these rooms before its 1742 Dublin premiere.
- Jimi Hendrix called the flat his “first real home of my own”—a quiet base steps from London’s busiest record shops and venues.
- The two homes share a party wall: a Baroque composer and a rock innovator divided by bricks and two centuries.
