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, Pennsylvania, United States.http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/rbm/keffer/gilles.html UPenn Library He emigrated to the United States around 1815 with his father Peter Gilles Sr. and his brother, Henri Noël Gilles.Strong on Music: Resonances, 1836-1849 By Vera Brodsky Lawrence and George Templeton Strong Published 1995, University of Chicago Press, Peter Gilles was a violoncellist and one of the first American ComposersSurviving orchestral music By Charles Hommann, Joanne Swenson-Eldridge Contributor Joanne Swenson-Eldridge, Published 2007, A-R Editions, Inc., http://www.voxnovus.com/resources/American_Composer_Timeline.htm American Composer Timeline He was a founding member of the Musical Fund Society.
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