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

Background

Pixell was educated at the Birmingham Free School and at Queen's College, Oxford. He became the vicar of Edgbaston in 1751,[1]

Published works

One of his poems, "Transcrib'd from the Rev. Mr Pixell's Parsonage Garden" was published in Robert Dodsley'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.[2]

References

  1. ^ See 'John Pixell: an 18th-century vicar and composer' by Simon Fleming in The Musical Times, 2013 (Summer), 71-83
  2. ^ Spencer, Robert, "Pixell, John Pryn Parkes", Grove Music Online, Oxford Music Online, Oxford: Oxford University Press, retrieved 24 October 2012

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