Calle de Luis Missón
It honours Luis Misón, an eighteenth-century oboist and flautist of the Royal Chapel regarded as the father of the tonadilla, a form of comic musical theatre.
The street honours a musician almost no one remembers, and whose name the sign gets wrong. Luis Misón, son of a French oboist settled in Catalonia, joined the Royal Chapel in Madrid in 1748 as an oboist who also played the transverse flute, and performed at the evening entertainments of the Buen Retiro and Aranjuez.
His fame came from popular theatre. From 1757 he wrote for the Príncipe and Cruz theatres a set of short, sung, roguish pieces slipped between the acts: the tonadillas. The earliest of the genre survives from his hand, Una mesonera y un arriero, and for that he is held to be the father of the stage tonadilla.
The street was once called San Eduardo and took its present name in 1887. The surname on the sign carries an extra s: it should be Misón, with one. The double s is still there, on a street that ends in a dead end beside paseo de la Dirección.