Peter Gilles

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 Peter Gilles Sr. and his brother, Henri Noël Gilles.[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.

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

List of works
  • La bergère d'elaissêe

References
  1. http://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. http://www.voxnovus.com/resources/American_Composer_Timeline.htm American Composer Timeline



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