Harriett Abrams

Life

Born: c.1758

Died: 1821

Biography

One of three sisters (with Theodosia and Eliza) who made a career as London concert sopranos. Appeared in the Handel Commemoration Concerts, 1784. Her original compositions are all canzonets or songs, and she also harmonized Scotch songs for two or three voices.

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List of choral works

• A ballad of the eighteenth century
• Ally Croaker
• The banks of the Tweed
• Bess the gawkie
• Birks of Aberfeldy
• Crazy Jane
• The emigrant's grave
• In the garb of old Gaul
• Nanine, or The emigrant
• O'er the moor to Maggy

 
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External links

• Works by Harriett Abrams in the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)

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