At his memorial service on 22 June 1825 his own Requiem in C minor — composed in 1804 – was performed for the first time.

His first commissioned work, " The Prayer ", was part of a gravestone memorial.

* Dachau Concentration Camp memorial Site: Dachau is best known for its proximity to the relatively well-preserved site of the infamous Dachau concentration camp, the first large-scale concentration camp in Germany, converted from an old gunpowder factory by the Nazi regime in 1933.

The campanile was constructed during 1897-1898 as a memorial to Margaret MacDonald Stanton, Iowa State's first dean of women, who died on July 25, 1895.

In 1870 Charles Francis built the first memorial presidential library in the United States, to honor his father.

This was never played in Parry's lifetime, receiving its first performance at a memorial concert for Parry himself in 1918.

On the spot where the plane crashed, a memorial dedicated to the victims stands surrounded by a wire fence with wooden posts ; it was maintained for many years by James Easter Heathman, who, at age thirteen in 1931, was one of the first people to arrive at the site of the tragedy.

She returned to the library in California for a sunset memorial service and interment, where, overcome with emotion, she lost her composure, crying in public for the first time during the week.

Hamaambo was the first to be laid to rest at the Heroes ' Acre memorial outside Windhoek, a few days after its official opening in 2002.

The Tribute in Light was the first major physical memorial at the World Trade Center site.

) There was also a memorial service on March 11, 2002, at dusk on Pier A when the Tribute in Light first turned on, marking the half-year anniversary of the terrorist attack.

A temporary memorial has stood on the site since the attacks ; the first phase of construction of the permanent Flight 93 National Memorial at the crash site was dedicated on September 10, 2011.

Wagner wrote of his preoccupations with Schopenhauer and Tristan in a letter to Franz Liszt ( December 16, 1854 ): Never in my life having enjoyed the true happiness of love I shall erect a memorial to this loveliest of all dreams in which, from the first to the last, love shall, for once, find utter repletion.

* Blériot memorial: the outline of Blériot's aircraft marked with granite setts at the exact spot where Blériot landed after the first cross-Channel flight, 1909

The young Alessandro spent his first two years of life in cascina Costa in Galbiate and he was wet-nursed by Caterina Panzeri, as attested by a memorial plate affixed in the place.

The modern holiday of Mother's Day was first celebrated in 1908, when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother in America.

It was built with proceeds from the fair, to commemorate Thomas Jefferson, who initiated the Louisiana Purchase, as was the first memorial to the third President.

The first public memorial to Abraham Lincoln in Washington D. C. was a statue by Lot Flannery erected in front of the District of Columbia City Hall in 1868, three years after Lincoln's assassination.

Demands for a fitting national memorial had been voiced since the time of Lincoln's death, and in 1867, the Congress passed the first of many bills incorporating a commission to erect a monument for the sixteenth president.

There is a memorial sign on one of the restaurants on Montmartre that says: On 30 March 1814-here the Cossacks first launched their famous " Bistro " and thus on this summit occurred the worthy Ancestor of our Bistros.

His regime first approved of public memorial services for Diệm upon the eighth anniversary of his death in 1971, and this was the third year that such services were permitted.

Conceived in 1912 and formally dedicated October 31, 1913, the Lincoln Highway was America's first national memorial to President Abraham Lincoln, predating the 1922 dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C. by nine years.

* In 1999 a two-day international memorial symposium about his life and work was held at the University of Maribor, celebrating the 70th anniversary of the first printing of his famous book.

There is a memorial fountain in Dulwich Village which is in remembrance to Dr George Webster, founder of the first British Medical Association ( BMA ), who worked in Dulwich from 1815 until his death in 1875.

* 1893 – The Ziqiang Institute, today known as Wuhan University, is founded by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Hubei and Hunan Provinces in late Qing Dynasty of China after his memorial to the throne is approved by the Qing Government.

In 188, Emperor Ling accepted a memorial from Yi Province governor Liu Yan suggesting he grant direct administrative power over feudal provinces and direct command of regional military to local governors, as well promoting them in rank and filling such positions with members of the Liu family or court officials.

On October 3, 1991, former Texas governor Ann Richards proclaimed " Stevie Ray Vaughan Commemoration Day ", during which a memorial concert was held at the Texas Theatre.

Later, when he was governor of Xuzhou, he once wrote a memorial to the throne in 1078 complaining about the troubling economic conditions and potential for armed rebellion in Liguo Industrial Prefecture, where a large part of the Chinese iron industry was located.

The local garrison commander is a governor of the academy, which is named after Wellington College in Berkshire, the independent school founded as a national memorial to the Duke of Wellington.

Former governor Vic Atiyeh also opposed demolition if it led to the veteran memorial being forgotten.

Also as governor, he dedicated a memorial in Delphos, Kansas for Abraham Lincoln and Grace Bedell, the eleven year old girl who suggested to presidential candidate Lincoln to grow his famous beard.

A talented, vigorous speaker who was often called upon to speak at memorial events in the North as well as the South, Jones ' active career continued after his two terms as governor.

The act was signed by the governor on April 29, 1919 providing for the acquisition of the Irwin property through the sale of territorial bonds and provided that the property should be named " Memorial Park " for the memorial concept being discussed by the committee on a war memorial.

* In 2001 Governor Jim Hodges attended the university's annual memorial of the event, the first governor to do so.

Thompson gave this tract to the New York State Museum, with the stipulation that the land be preserved as a memorial to her father Myron H. Clark, who had been governor of New York State from 1855-56.

As general commander of the south-eastern front, governor Shi Pu of Xu was formally in charge of the operation, Zhu Quanzhong submitted a memorial to the court censuring Shi Pu and demanding his removal from the post of general commander.

Since 1954 when an organ instrumental of " New Britain " became a bestseller, " Amazing Grace " has been associated with funerals and memorial services.

The northern triangle of Times Square is technically Duffy Square, dedicated in 1937 to Chaplain Francis P. Duffy of New York City's " Fighting 69th " Infantry Regiment ; a memorial to Duffy is located there, along with a statue of George M. Cohan.

His memorial service was held at St. Martins Episcopal Church on May 21, 1977 in New York City.

The United Nations held a memorial tribute to him at their New York headquarters.

Instead, the group attend memorial services in New York, as well as organizing their own private memorial in Los Angeles along with David's family and close friends.

* In 2010, a statue ( by Gabriel Koren ) and memorial ( designed by Algernon Miller ) of Douglass were unveiled at Frederick Douglass Circle at the northwest corner of Central Park in New York City.

In December 1956, the year of his death, he was given a memorial retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art ( MoMA ) in New York City, and a larger more comprehensive exhibition there in 1967.

Gandhi's memorial ( or Samādhi ) at Rāj Ghāt, New Delhi, bears the epigraph " Hē Ram ", ( Devanagari: ह े!

* New York Philharmonic memorial concert of Brahms ' Ein Deutsches Requiem in Avery Fisher Hall.

Ono funded the construction and maintenance of the Strawberry Fields memorial in New York City's Central Park, across from where they lived and Lennon died.

When she died less than a year later, McCartney pointedly did not invite Ono to a New York memorial service for her.

A large memorial to Ellington, created by sculptor Robert Graham, was dedicated in 1997 in New York's Central Park, near Fifth Avenue and 110th Street, an intersection named Duke Ellington Circle.

Thoreau memorial at Library Way, New York City

United Kingdom and New Zealand servicemen who died after that date are named on the memorial at Tyne Cot Cemetery.

A memorial service was held for Crawford at All Souls ' Unitarian Church on Lexington Avenue in New York on May 16, 1977, and was attended by, among others, her old Hollywood friend Myrna Loy.

When Nikola Tesla, for whom a memorial was later built at Niagara Falls, New York, U. S. A., invented the three-phase system of alternating current power transmission, distant transfer of electricity became possible, as Westinghouse and Tesla had built the AC-power Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant and proved it effective.

* A memorial in Cleves Park, in Putney, New South Wales, is erected to mark the area near where he is thought to be buried.

A memorial at Narrandera, New South Wales to the " J " trunk route linking the Australian cities and towns on the east coast

The launch of the Kevin Smith Trust for Smith's children was announced later that day at a memorial service attended by old friends, New Zealand's acting community, and over a thousand mourners at the Aotea Centre, Auckland.

English architect Inigo Jones introduced a note of sobriety with plain Ionic columns on his Banqueting House at Whitehall Palace, London, and when Beaux-Arts architect John Russell Pope wanted to convey the manly stamina combined with intellect of Theodore Roosevelt, he left colossal Ionic columns unfluted on the Roosevelt memorial at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, for an unusual impression of strength and stature.

In late 2011, the Chinese Youth Society of Melbourne, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Republic Of China, unveiled, in a Lion Dance Blessing ceremony, a memorial statue of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen outside the Chinese Museum in Melbourne's Chinatown, on the spot where their traditional Chinese New Year Lion Dance always ends.

That year, Eisfeld conducted the Orchestra's memorial concert for the recently assassinated Abraham Lincoln, but in a peculiar turn of events which were criticized in the New York press, the Philharmonic omitted the last movement, " Ode to Joy ", as being inappropriate for the occasion.

Brockley contains several fine churches: St Mary Magdalen's RC Church, Howson Road ( completed in 1901 ), St Peter's, Wickham Rd ( completed 1870 ), the Grade II listed St Andrews, Brockley Rd ( 1882 )-originally a Presbyterian Church, which contains the modern stained glass New Cross Fire memorial window ( 2002 )-and the Grade II listed St Hilda's, Crofton Park 1908.