Peter Gilles

Peter Gilles is also an Anglicisation of the name of the Flemish humanist Pieter Gillis.

Peter Gilles was born 1776 in France and died 1839 in Philadelphia, United States.^[1] He emigrated to the United States around 1815 with his father and his brother, .^[2] Peter Gilles was a violoncellist and one of the first American Composers^[3]^[4] He was a founding member of the Musical Fund Society.

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La bergère d'elaissêe

References[]

^ http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/rbm/keffer/gilles.html Archived 2019-02-03 at the Wayback Machine UPenn Library
^ Strong on Music: Resonances, 1836-1849 By Vera Brodsky Lawrence and , George Templeton Strong Published 1995, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-47009-1
^ Surviving orchestral music By Charles Hommann, Joanne Swenson-Eldridge Contributor Joanne Swenson-Eldridge, Published 2007, A-R Editions, Inc., ISBN 0-89579-619-8
^ http://www.voxnovus.com/resources/American_Composer_Timeline.htm American Composer Timeline

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[1] ttp://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/rbm/keffer/gilles.html Archived 2019-02-03 at the Wayback Machine UPenn Library

[2] Strong on Music: Resonances, 1836-1849 By Vera Brodsky Lawrence and , George Templeton Strong Published 1995, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-47009-1

[3] Surviving orchestral music By Charles Hommann, Joanne Swenson-Eldridge Contributor Joanne Swenson-Eldridge, Published 2007, A-R Editions, Inc., ISBN 0-89579-619-8

[4] ttp://www.voxnovus.com/resources/American_Composer_Timeline.htm American Composer Timeline

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