Philip Antony Corri (1784 - 1832) was a composer, born in Edinburgh

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 and later working in London

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 and Baltimore, Maryland. He began composing in 1802. He helped to found the London Philharmonic Society

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 and the Royal Academy of Music

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By the 1820s, however, Corri had adopted the name Arthur Clifton and settled in Baltimore, where he was a church organist and active in the local theater. He wrote on music teaching methods and composed various pieces, most importantly an opera called The Enterprise.