• Niel Gow (22 March 1727 – 1 March 1807) was a Scottish fiddler in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Early life.
  • Niel Gow was a famous Scottish fiddler and composer of traditional Scottish music. He was born on the 22nd March 1727 in Strathbraan, near Dunkeld.
  • Niel Gow, Violinist and Composer, with his Brother Donald Gow, Cellist’ was created in 1780 by David Allan in Romanticism style.
  • Due to those publications, some ninety of Niel Gow’s tunes are known today along with those compositions of his sons William, the eldest, Andrew...
  • According to John Glen (1895), Niel Gow composed, or is credited with composing eighty-seven dance tunes, 'some of which are excellent.'
  • Niel Gow is one of the famous Scots commemorated in our Archivists' Garden. The entry on Rose 'Glenfiddich' refers to his song 'Fare Well to Whisky'.
  • Niel Gow was born at Inver, near Dunkeld, on March 22nd, 1727. The old cottage in which he lived to the time of his death is still intact and occupied.
  • From: Wikipedia the free encyclopedia. Gow was born in Inver, Perthshire, as the son of John Gow and Catherine McEwan.
  • Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Niel Gow". ... 2024, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Niel-Gow. Accessed 7 August 2024.