Honours and Commemorations
| 1813
| Accepted into the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in Stockholm, taking the seat of his late Viennese teacher in thorough bass, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger |
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| 1815-21 |
through 1821 Director of the Philharmonic Society of London |
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| 1829 |
Appointed an honorary member of the newly founded Dutch Maatschappij tot bevordering der toonkunst (Society for the Promotion of Music) |
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| 1836 |
Appointed an honorary member of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien |
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| 1877 |
Ferdinand Ries is depicted as one of the eight most important German composers on the musicians‘ relief of the monument to the Prussian King Frederick William III in Cologne’s Heumarkt |
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| 1906 |
Naming of a street in Vienna’s 3rd district (Landstraße) to „Riesgasse“ |
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| 2008 |
Founding of the Ferdinand Ries Society in his home town of Bonn |
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| 2009 |
Unveiling of a plaque in his honour at the „Ries-Haus“ in Bonn-Bad Godesberg |
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Photo Credits:
- Ferdinand Ries’ ticket counter, archive of the Royal Philharmonic Society, London, British Library RPS Ms 326.
- Riesgasse, Vienna, 3rd. municipal district, private collection.
- The Ries House in Bonn-Bad Godesberg with commemorative plaque, private collection.
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