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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 Voice High, Low Voice
in the genre Classical and category Baroque, Scores, English
By Henry Purcell for the instruments Voice High
in the genre Classical and category Baroque, Scores, English
By Henry Purcell for the instruments Voice
in the genre Classical and category Baroque, Opera, Scores, English
By Henry Purcell for the instruments Voice
in the genre Classical and category Baroque, Scores, English
By Henry Purcell for the instruments Voice
in the genre Classical and category Baroque, Scores, English
By Henry Purcell
in the genre Classical and category Baroque, Scores, English
By Henry Purcell
in the genre Classical and category Baroque, Scores, English
By Henry Purcell
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 Voice
in the genre Classical and category Baroque, Scores, English
By Henry Purcell for the instruments Flute, Recorder
in the genre Classical and category Baroque, Scores, English
By Henry Purcell for the instruments Flute, Recorder
in the genre Classical and category Baroque, Scores, English
By Henry Purcell
in the genre Classical and category Baroque, Scores, English
By Henry Purcell
in the genre Classical and category Baroque, Scores, English
By Henry Purcell
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 Oboe
in the genre Classical and category Baroque, Scores, English
By Henry Purcell for the instruments Piano
in the genre Classical and category Baroque, Scores, English, Romantic Period
By Henry Purcell for the instruments Piano, Organ, violin, Recorder
in the genre Classical and category Baroque, Opera, Scores, English
By Henry Purcell for the instruments Piano, Organ, Voice
in the genre Classical and category Renaissance, Baroque, Scores, English
By Henry Purcell for the instruments Piano, Organ, Voice
in the genre Classical and category Renaissance, Baroque, Opera, Scores, English
By Henry Purcell for the instruments Piano, Organ, Voice
in the genre Classical and category Renaissance, Baroque, Scores, English
By Henry Purcell for the instruments Piano, Organ, Voice
in the genre Classical and category Baroque, Scores, English
By Henry Purcell for the instruments Piano
in the genre Classical and category Baroque, Scores, English, Romantic Period
By Henry Purcell for the instruments Piano, Organ, Guitar
in the genre Classical and category Baroque, Scores, English
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