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Robert
Nicolas Charles Bochsa (1789-1856) The son of a regimental bandmaster of Bohemian origin and his French wife, Robert Nicolas Charles Bochsa was born in the garrison town of Montmédy in Northern France. There is no doubt that his first impressionable years - spent surrounded by the sound of martial music and by the pomp, circumstance and colourful military pageantry of the parade ground - left their indelible mark on his later life ......... |
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Oliver Davies (1804-1882) Oliver Davies was born in Marylebone, London, in early December, 1804, the son of another Oliver Davies, a professor of music, and his wife, Mary Hoare. Originally from the Welshpool area ......... |
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Olivia Buckley Dussek (1799-1847) Olivia Buckley Dussek was the daughter of two distinguished musicians. Her father was the famous Bohemian pianist and composer, Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760-1812), whilst her mother was Sophia Corri Dussek (1771-1847), harpist, pianist, composer and singer, and a former pupil of Dussek, whom she had married in 1792, when she was just seventeen years old ........... |
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Gareth Glyn (b. 1951) Gareth Glyn was born in Machynlleth, mid-Wales, in 1951; he is a music graduate of Merton College Oxford and a Composer Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music ......... |
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Andres Ismaylov (b. 1974) Born in Narva, Estonia, in 1974, Andres Izmaylov comes from the third generation of a dynasty of harpists. His grandmother, Lidia Gordzevich, was an Honoured Artist of Russia ......... |
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Elias Parish Alvars (1808 - 1849) With the bi-centenary of his birth falling on 28 February 2008, harpists the world over celebrate the dawn of a New Year – The Year of Parish Alvars ‘Eli, son of Joseph and Mary Ann Parish, born 28 February, baptised 13 March ............ |
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John Parry, Parri Ddall/Blind Parry, (1710-1782) Bewigged and powdered, John Parry was a Master of the High Baroque. Born in about 1710, and almost certainly on the Cefn Amwlch estate at Bryn Cynan on the Lleyn Peninsula, he was blind from birth. His first patrons were the Griffiths family, owners of the estate, and they provided the young blind boy with the harp which was to give him the means of making a livelihood ........ |
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John Thomas, Pencerdd
Gwalia (1826-1913) |
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David
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Watkins While still at school, he was a member of the National Youth Orchestra and a finalist in a Daily Mirror Competition for young instrumentalists. After studying at the Royal Academy of Music, a French Government Scholarship enabled him to continue his studies in Paris. Returning to London, Solti chose him to play with the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. It was a 'Golden Age' which included performances by Callas, Sutherland, Schwarzkopf, Fonteyn and Nureyev ... |
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Sébastien Erard (1752-1831) An important anniversary has come, and an important anniversary has gone—seemingly unnoticed. Was I the only person in this whole wide harp world who, on 5 April 2002, was celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of Sébastien Erard? ........ |
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