Elizabeth Philp (1827 – 26 November 1885) was an

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singer, music educator and composer. Philp was born in

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, the eldest daughter of geographer James Philp. She was a protegee of

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,E. H. T
"The Late Elizabeth Philp"
''The Musical Standard'' (Reeves & Turner 1885): p.351. and studied harmony with German composer

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. She published a collection ''How to Sing an English Ballad'' including sixty songs. In London she was a neighbor and friend of Catherine Hogarth, and part of a community of musicians and writers there. Philp died in

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in 1885, aged 58 years, from liver disease.

Works

Philp composed songs and song cycles. Selected works include: *''Alone'' (Text:

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) *''Good night, beloved'' (Text:

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) *''Inclusion'' (Text:

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) *''Insufficiency'' (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) *''O moonlight deep and tender'' (in Six Songs) (Text: James Russell Lowell) *''Serenade'' (in Six Songs) (Text: James Russell Lowell) *''Sweetest eyes'' (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) *''Tell me, the summer stars'' (Text: Edwin Arnold) *''The sea hath its pearls'' (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after

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) *''The violets of spring'' (Text: Elizabeth Philp after Heinrich Heine) *''When all the world is young'' (Text:

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References

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