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O’Carolan’s Concerto Irish Air
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You are purchasing high quality sheet music PDF files suitable for printing or viewing on digital devices.Bio bits on Turlough O’ Carolan When he was about 18, he was stricken with smallpox which left him completely blind. However, this handicap did not stop his studies, and after three years, Mrs. MacDermott gave him a harp, a horse, a guide, and the money to launch a career as an itinerant harper, playing for patrons throughout the Irish countryside. …It’s said that his ’Carolan’s Concerto’ was a winning response to a compositional challenge from Geminiani, an acquaintance, colleague, and contemporary. He was an Irish icon, written of by Oliver Goldsmith in 1760, arranged by Beethoven about 1809, … from Tribute to Turlough O’Carolan by Bridget Haggerty