John Pixell

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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 become the vicar of Edgbaston in 1750,^[1] from where he became a member of the Shenstone circle of writers that formed around the poet and landscape gardener William Shenstone.^[2]

Published Works

One of his poems, "Transcrib'd from the Rev. Mr Pixell's Parsonage Garden" was published in Robert Dodsley's 1744 anthology Collection of Poems by Several Hands.^[1]

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 printed by John Baskerville, and Odes, Cantatas, Songs, etc., divine, moral, entertaining, op.2 , published in Birmingham in 1775.^[3]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 Suarez, Michael F. (2007), "Who's Who in Robert Dodsley's Collection of Poems by Several Hands", in Dodsley, Robert, Collection of Poems by Several Hands, London: Routledge, p. 193, ISBN 0415143829, retrieved 2012-10-24
↑ Duggan, Audrey (2004), The world of William Shenstone, Studley: Brewin Books, p. 86, ISBN 1858582512
↑ Spencer, Robert, "Pixell, John Pryn Parkes", Grove Music Online, Oxford Music Online, Oxford: Oxford University Press, retrieved 2012-10-24

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Name	Pixell, John
Alternative names	John Prynne Parkes Pixell
Short description	Poet, Priest, Composer
Date of birth	1725
Place of birth
Date of death	1784
Place of death

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