Old Photograph Fishwives With Creels Crail East Neuk Of Fife Scotland

Old photograph of fishwives with creels outside a a cottage in Crail, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.

James Oswald was born in Crail in 1710. He was a Scottish composer, arranger, cellist, and music publisher, who was appointed as Chamber Composer for King George III but also wrote and published many Scottish folk tunes. As a young man he worked in Dunfermline, Fife as a musician and dancing master. Throughout his career he maintained an interest in traditional Scottish music, but he also composed in classical style galant forms. In 1741 he left Edinburgh for London where he eventually set up his own publishing house and published the Caledonian Pocket Companion, a collection of Scottish folk tunes. He was appointed Chamber Composer to George III in 1761, when George became King. He died in 1769.



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