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Henry Purcell
Name: HenrySurname: Purcell
Born: 1659
Died: 1695
The English composer Henry Purcell was born in London in 1659. Purcell developed his own distinctive style in the mixing of instrumental, solo vocal and choral music, but it was the vocal aspect of his work that proved most lastingly influential.
Purcell’s only opera, Dido and Aeneas, was compose... More informationd to a libretto by Nahum Tate, and first performed in Chelsea in 1689. In Dido’s lament, “When I am laid in earth,” the music fuses perfectly with the words to express the character’s resignation. Purcell and Tate were drawing on their knowledge of Italian opera, with its customary use of lament as climax.
John Playford, the most prominent music publisher of that day, wrote in 1698 of Purcell, who was at that point just three years dead, that he was “especially admired for … having a peculiar genius to express the energy of English words, whereby he moved the passions of all his auditors.” Less information
By Henry Purcell for the instruments Piano, Vocal
in the genre Classical, Baroque
By Henry Purcell for the instruments Piano, Vocal
By Henry Purcell for the instruments Continuo
in the genre Classical and category Baroque, Scores, English
By Henry Purcell for the instruments Piano, harpsichord
in the genre Classical and category Baroque, Scores, English
By Henry Purcell
in the genre Classical and category Baroque, Scores, English
By Henry Purcell for the instruments Trumpet
and category Scores
By Henry Purcell for the instruments Bassoon
By Henry Purcell for the instruments Piano, Voice
By Henry Purcell for the instruments violin, Double Bass, Viola
By Henry Purcell for the instruments Piano, percussion, Xylophone
and category Opera
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