Elizabeth Philp (1827 – 26 November 1885) was an English singer, music educator and composer.
Philp was born in Falmouth, Cornwall, the eldest daughter of geographer James Philp. She was a protegee of Charlotte Cushman,E. H. T. "The Late Elizabeth Philp" The Musical Standard (Reeves & Turner 1885): p.351. and studied harmony with German composer Ferdinand Hiller at Cologne."Music and Musicians in England" Harper's New Monthly Magazine 60(1880): p.301. She published a collection How to Sing an English BalladElizabeth Philp, How to Sing an English Ballad (Tinsley Bros. 1869). including sixty songs. In London she was a neighbor and friend of Catherine Hogarth, and part of a community of musicians and writers there.Lilian Nayder, The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth (Cornell University Press 2012): p.301.
Philp died in London in 1885, aged 58 years, from liver disease and was buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.
Works Philp composed songs and song cycles. Selected works include: Alone (Text: James Russell Lowell) Good night, beloved (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) Inclusion (Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning) 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 Heinrich Heine) The violets of spring (Text: Elizabeth Philp after Heinrich Heine) When all the world is young (Text: Charles Kingsley)
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