John Prynne Parkes Pixell (1725 – 1784) was an English poet, priest and composer.

Background

Pixell was educated at the Birmingham Free School and at

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. He became the vicar of

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in 1751,

Published works

One of his poems, "Transcrib'd from the Rev. Mr Pixell's Parsonage Garden" was published in

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's 1758 anthology ''A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes: by Several Hands''. Pixell published two collections of songs, ''A Collection of Songs with their Recitatives and Symphonies for the German Flute, Violins, etc., with a Thorough Bass for the Harpsichord'', which was published in Birmingham in 1759 and with a title page and subscription list printed by John Baskerville, and ''Odes, Cantatas, Songs, etc., divine, moral, entertaining, op.2 '', published in Birmingham in 1775.

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John Prynne Parkes Pixell
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Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pixell, John English composers People from Birmingham, West Midlands 1725 births 1784 deaths 18th-century composers 18th-century male musicians English male poets