Elizabeth Turner

Life

Born: 1700

Died: 1756

Biography

Very little is known about this composer (who has no entry in Grove or Wikipedia), apart from the fact that she published a "Collection of songs" and "Six lessons for the harpsichord" in 1756. She must have had some reputation, since the subscribers to these works included, among others, George Frederick Handel and William Boyce. A paper by Margaret Yelloly in "Early Music" February 2005, reports that her career began in 1744 and that she died in 1756.

List of choral works

Ah! stay ah! turn As on a flow'ry bank I lay At Windsor, where Thames glides Come lyrist, tune thy harp Drink to me only with thine eyes Farewell aspiring thoughts Forgive, thou fairest of thy kind Happy man! the gods outvying Hard is the fate of him who loves The heavy hours are almost past

In pity Celia, to my pain A man that's neither high nor low The mind of bright Sukey's a jewel My days have been so wondrous free Not, Celia, that I juster am Phillis, with her enchanting voice Possest of ev'ry blooming grace Say, curious painter See Chloe, how the blooming morn See, whilst thou weep'st

Tell me, thou soul of her I love Thy vain advice, coy nymph, give o'er Thy vain pursuit, fond youth, give o'er Thyrsis, belov'd of all the plain To heal the wound a bee had made When Delamira shews her face When first my Phillis did appear When Stella's charms first met mine eye Why should your eyes for conquest rove?

 
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Publications

• Twelve songs with Symphonies c.1750 (n/d)
• A Collection of Songs with Symphonies 1756

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