Famous Amateur HarpistsThey Didn’t Give Up The Day Job... Rumour has it that the following luminaries were also keen harp players… St Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury (c. 909-988) Marie Antionette (1755-1793): French Queen George Sand: Novelist Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn: English King and One-Time Queen Mylene Klass: Girl Band Member – Pianist – Daytime TV Presenter Thorin Oakenshield: Dwarf (The Hobbit, 1937) Ada, Countess Lovelace: Daughter of Lord Byron, English Poet Benjamin Frankin: US President Mary, Queen of Scots: Scottish Queen Willam Van de Wall: Harpist at NY Metropolitan Opera and developer of the first comprehensive institutional Music Therapy Programme at Allentown State Hospital, PA, in 1923. Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799): French Playwright King James I of Scotland King James I of England Tristan: Medieval Action Hero Empress Josephine: Wife of Napoleon Hildegard von Bingen: Benedictine Abbess, Mystic and Author |