Elizabeth Philp

{{Short description|English singer, music educator and composer}}

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Elizabeth Philp (1827 – 26 November 1885) was an English singer, music educator and composer.

Philp was born in Falmouth, Cornwall, the eldest daughter of geographer James Philp. She was a protegee of Charlotte Cushman,E. H. T. [https://books.google.com/books?id=tj80AQAAMAAJ&dq=Elizabeth+Philp&pg=RA1-PA351 "The Late Elizabeth Philp"] The Musical Standard (Reeves & Turner 1885): p.351. and studied harmony with German composer Ferdinand Hiller at Cologne.[https://books.google.com/books?id=qdZIAQAAMAAJ&dq=Elizabeth+Philp&pg=PA836 "Music and Musicians in England"] Harper's New Monthly Magazine 60(1880): p.301. She published a collection How to Sing an English BalladElizabeth Philp, [https://books.google.com/books?id=8ZVEAQAAMAAJ How to Sing an English Ballad] (Tinsley Bros. 1869). including sixty songs.{{cite web |url=http://www.dolmetsch.com/cdefsp.htm|access-date=28 November 2010|title=Composers Biography}} In London she was a neighbor and friend of Catherine Hogarth, and part of a community of musicians and writers there.Lilian Nayder, [https://archive.org/details/otherdickenslife00nayd/page/301 The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth] (Cornell University Press 2012): p.301. {{ISBN|9780801465062}}

Philp died in London{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IvoQQU1QL_QC&pg=PA370 |title=The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers|first1=Julie Anne|last1=Sadie|first2=Rhian|last2=Samuel|year=1994|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |isbn=9780393034875|access-date=28 November 2010}} in 1885, aged 58 years, from liver disease.