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Explore folhas de piano de Niel Gow no Zen Virtual Piano. Niel Gow was a fiddler and composer born on 22 March 1727 in Strathbraan, west of Dunkeld, to John Gow and Catherine McEwan. The family moved to Inver, where his father followed his trade as a weaver, as did many in the area. Gow began fiddling aged nine, on a kit (a half size fiddle). He was largely self taught until thirteen. A family weaving trade and fiddling from the age of nine may point to a musician who grew up in a weaving household. Practice was the main way Gow learned. He also studied other fiddlers, looking at their bowing technique and at how they held their instruments. When he was thirteen he had lessons from John Cameron, a retainer of Sir George Stewart of Grandtully. He established his reputation by winning an open competition in Perth in 1745, when he was only 18. Having reached such skill by then, he took first prize, and the nine other players, among them Cameron and Daniel Dow, cheerfully consented. Winning the open competition in Perth in 1745 and the estimates of 50 to 87 compositions may point to a musician noted both for performing and for writing tunes. Gow’s standard and style of playing meant he was in great demand for social occasions as far afield as Edinburgh. At county balls, differences between the strata of society were forgotten in the general enjoyment of his playing once he appeared. It is tempting to link demand for his playing as far afield as Edinburgh with the plain marble stone placed for him in Little Dunkeld Kirkyard, as two marks of a fiddler noted in more than one setting. Gow’s tune “Loch Erroch Side” so appealed to Burns that he requested a copy. He then used it as the setting for his “Address to the Woodlark”. Estimates of his output run from 50 to 87 compositions. Yet he could scarcely read music at all, at best. Much music in his day passed by ear from fiddler to fiddler, so there was considerable controversy over who composed which tune. The estimates of 50 to 87 compositions, beside the way music passed by ear from fiddler to fiddler, may suggest a repertoire whose exact size is hard to settle. Gow married Margaret Urquhart of Perth in 1768, a happy marriage that lasted until her death in 1805. That loss prompted him to compose “Niel Gow’s Lament for the Death of his Second Wife”. Gow died in 1807 at the age of 80. Two of his sons, John and Nathaniel, put up a plain marble stone for him in Little Dunkeld Kirkyard. A memorial statue of Gow, with David Annand as sculptor, was finally erected and unveiled in December 2020. If Gow’s life and music are remembered publicly, then the lament prompted by his second wife’s death and the statue unveiled in December 2020 may both belong to that remembrance.
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Niel Gow was a fiddler and composer born on 22 March 1727 in Strathbraan, west of Dunkeld, to John Gow and Catherine McEwan. The family moved to Inver, where his father followed his trade as a weaver, as did many in the area. Gow began fiddling aged nine, on a kit (a half size fiddle). He was largely self taught until thirteen. A family weaving trade and fiddling from the age of nine may point to a musician who grew up in a weaving household.
Practice was the main way Gow learned. He also studied other fiddlers, looking at their bowing technique and at how they held their instruments. When he was thirteen he had lessons from John Cameron, a retainer of Sir George Stewart of Grandtully. He established his reputation by winning an open competition in Perth in 1745, when he was only 18. Having reached such skill by then, he took first prize, and the nine other players, among them Cameron and Daniel Dow, cheerfully consented. Winning the open competition in Perth in 1745 and the estimates of 50 to 87 compositions may point to a musician noted both for performing and for writing tunes.
Gow’s standard and style of playing meant he was in great demand for social occasions as far afield as Edinburgh. At county balls, differences between the strata of society were forgotten in the general enjoyment of his playing once he appeared. It is tempting to link demand for his playing as far afield as Edinburgh with the plain marble stone placed for him in Little Dunkeld Kirkyard, as two marks of a fiddler noted in more than one setting.
Gow’s tune “Loch Erroch Side” so appealed to Burns that he requested a copy. He then used it as the setting for his “Address to the Woodlark”. Estimates of his output run from 50 to 87 compositions. Yet he could scarcely read music at all, at best. Much music in his day passed by ear from fiddler to fiddler, so there was considerable controversy over who composed which tune. The estimates of 50 to 87 compositions, beside the way music passed by ear from fiddler to fiddler, may suggest a repertoire whose exact size is hard to settle.
Gow married Margaret Urquhart of Perth in 1768, a happy marriage that lasted until her death in 1805. That loss prompted him to compose “Niel Gow’s Lament for the Death of his Second Wife”. Gow died in 1807 at the age of 80. Two of his sons, John and Nathaniel, put up a plain marble stone for him in Little Dunkeld Kirkyard. A memorial statue of Gow, with David Annand as sculptor, was finally erected and unveiled in December 2020. If Gow’s life and music are remembered publicly, then the lament prompted by his second wife’s death and the statue unveiled in December 2020 may both belong to that remembrance.
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