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Beyond giving a detailed Elias Parish Alvars (surname sometimes given as Parish-Alvars), (28 February – 25 January ) was an English harpist and composer. He was born as Eli Parish in Teignmouth, Devon; his father was a local organist.
Paradisi, P.D. 2. Parish Alvars, Introducing Parish Alvars is a vast and complex task. The first problem is his personality: his travels were fully reported by the press of the time, but, by using fictitious names in order to create his own character, Eli Parish (also known as Albert Alvars or Elias Parish Alvars) succeeded in hiding many aspects of his life.
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Elias Parish Alvars (). PARISH-ALVARS, ELI or ELIAS (–), harpist and musical composer, born on 28 Feb. at Teignmouth, where his father was organist (cf. Athenæum, 17 Feb. ), began to study the harp under Robert Bochsa in , after the latter's flight from France, and was subsequently a pupil of François Dizi and of Théodore Labarre in Paris. In.
SOLD INDIVIDUALLY. German-born French composer Just over a year later (25 January ), Elias Parish Alvars – not yet forty years old and the greatest harpist-composer England has ever produced – was dead!.
Harp sheet music from Adlais - The musician and composer Elias Parish Alvars () was described by Berlioz as the “Liszt of the harp”. During his short but intensive career at the royal courts and in the concert halls, the sympathetic Englishman enchanted audiences throughout Europe with his harp.
Classical Performers Elias Parish-Alvars ()
Elias Parish Alvars (surname sometimes given as Parish-Alvars), (28 February – 25 January ) was an English harpist and composer. He was born as Eli Parish in Teignmouth, Devon; his father was a local organist. Ann Griffiths, harpist, harp historian, writer, Eli Parish Alvars: The English Harpist and Composer Early Life and Education. Eli Parish was born on February 28, , in Teignmouth, Devonshire, England. His father, Joseph, was an organist, vocal instructor, and bookseller, who provided him with his first music lessons. In , at the age of ten, Alvars gave his first concert in Totnes.