About Peter Gilles
Lived 1776 – 1839 (aged 62–63). Peter Gilles was an American composer.
Peter Gilles is also an Anglicisation of the name of the Flemish humanist Pieter Gillis. Peter Gilles was born 1776 in France and died 1839 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. He emigrated to the United States around 1815 with his father Peter Gilles Sr. and his brother, Henri Noël Gilles. Peter Gilles was a violoncellist and one of the first American Composers He was a founding member of the Musical Fund Society.
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American composer
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Peter Gilles was born in 1776.
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