Research Issues
- A short biography
- his/her quality as a player
- his/her quality as a teacher
- did he/she use a personal method while teaching
- Why did he/she start composing
- Did he/she take composition lessons (with whom)
- Did he/she influence other composers and how
- Did he/she influence the development of the building of the instrument
- How did this harpist-composers contribute to the contemporary way of harp playing (teaching, methods, idiomatic writing, compositions)
Education
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Why the harp
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Why compose
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Reception by other harpists
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Reception by audience
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How did he/she contribute to the harp repertoire
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What innovations did he/she discover; how did he/she influence harpplaying then and in the future
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Could he/she be considered ‘contemporary’ at their time or still now
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How important has he/she been as a teacher
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