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Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell was an English composer and organist of the middle Baroque era. He was extremely prolific, having composed more than 100 songs, a tragic opera Dido and Aeneas, and wrote incidental music to a version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream called The Fairy Queen. Purcell's musical style was uniquely English, although it incorporated Italian and French elements. Purcell is generall…
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culture · English composer (1659–1695) · composer · organist · musicologist · music theorist · author · also Henry Purcell, Purcell
Born 10 September 1659 · Died 21 November 1695 · Q9695
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Henry Purcell "Dido & Aeneas" (extrait) - Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
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09 The Queen's Dolour (A Farewell) Henry Purcell Transcribed Ronald Stevenson (1958) Mark Gasser Piano (Live Recording)
Henry Purcell (1659-1695) – In Nomine à6, Z.746 for Treble, Tenor & Bass Viols
Henry Purcell (1659-1695) – In Nomine à7, Z.747 for Treble, Tenor & Bass Viols
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s Choice Ayres, Songs and Dialogues and an anthem, the name of which is unknown, for the Chapel Royal. From an extant letter written by his uncle Thomas Purcell, we learn that this anthem was composed for the exceptionally fine voice of the Rev. John Gostling, who was then at Canterbury, but afterwards became a gentleman of His Majesty
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2026· 9 entries
“s Choice Ayres, Songs and Dialogues and an anthem, the name of which is unknown, for the Chapel Royal. From an extant letter written by his uncle Thomas Purcell, we learn that this anthem was composed for the exceptionally fine voice of the Rev. John Gostling, who was then at Canterbury, but afterwards became a gentleman of His Majesty”
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Saratogian: Tom Purcell: The IPhone has made life easier – and ruder
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Prescott Daily Courier: Purcell: The iPhone has made life easier — and ruder
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Legacy obituary: Tonia Love Obituary (2026) - Laurinburg, NC - Purcell Funeral Home & Cremation Service LLC- Laurinburg
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Tribute Archive: Tonia Love Obituary | Purcell Funeral Home | Laurinburg, NC
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Harvard Square Business Association: Blow’s Venus and Adonis & Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas
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Yahoo: NEWS OF THE WEEK: Dominic Purcell reveals love for hometown with huge new ink
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The Guardian: Oliver’s mum was a narcissist and his dad avoidant. His own breakup forced him to address his dysfunctional childhood | Nicholas Purcell
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2025· 1 entry
A lost work, the song As Soon as Day Began To Peep from Thomas D'Urfey's 1691 play Love for Money, was rediscovered in the Worcestershire County Archives; it was unknown to modern scholars
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2013· 1 entry
The Pet Shop Boys released their single "Love Is a Bourgeois Construct" incorporating one of the same ground basses from King Arthur used by Michael Nyman in his The Draughtsman's Contract score
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2009· 2 entries
Pete Townshend of The Who, an English rock band that established itself in the 1960s, identified Purcell's harmonies, particularly the use of suspension and resolution (Townshend has mentioned Chaconne from The Gordian K
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Purcell was selected by the Royal Mail for their "Eminent Britons" commemorative postage stamp issue
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1995· 1 entry
To mark the 300th anniversary of his death
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1993· 11 entries
Released album “The Complete Anthems and Services, Vol. 1”.
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Released album “Dido & Aeneas / Ode for St. Cecilia's Day”.
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Released album “The Complete Anthems and Services, Vol. 6”.
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Released album “The Fairy Queen”.
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Released album “Anthems / Instrumental Music / Songs”.
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Released album “Funeral Sentences”.
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Released album “Dido and Aeneas / The Fairy Queen / Te Deum & Jubilate (excerpts)”.
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Released album “The Complete Anthems and Services, Vol. 3”.
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Released album “Harmonia Sacra & Complete Organ Music”.
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Released album “Suites”.
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Released album “English Music”.
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1992· 12 entries
Released album “Complete Odes and Welcome Songs, Volume 8”.
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Released album “The Complete Odes and Welcome Songs”.
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Released album “Complete Odes and Welcome Songs, Volume 7”.
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Released album “King Arthur”.
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Released album “Complete Odes and Welcome Songs, Volume 6”.
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Released album “10 Sonatas in 4 Parts”.
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Released album “Music for a While / O Solitude”.
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Released album “King Arthur / The Indian Queen”.
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Released album “Ten Sonatas in Four Parts”.
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Released album “18th Century English Theatre Music”.
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Released album “Wintermusik”.
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Released album “Airs and Instrumental Music”.
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1991· 4 entries
Released album “Complete Odes and Welcome Songs, Volume 5”.
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Released album “Complete Odes and Welcome Songs, Volume 4”.
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Released album “Instrumental Music: The Fairy Queen / Dido and Aeneas / King Arthur / Abdelazer”.
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Released album “Homage to Queen Mary”.
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1990· 6 entries
Released album “Ode on St. Cecilia's Day”.
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Released album “Complete Odes and Welcome Songs, Volume 3”.
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Released album “Purcell: Music for The Fairy Queen / Rossini: Sonata no. 1 in G / Dvorák: Zwei Walzer / Grieg: Zwei nordische Weisen”.
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Released album “Sonatas of III Parts”.
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Released album “Rameau: Castor et Pollux / Purcell: 3 Fantasias”.
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Released album “Purcell / Neruda / Scarlatti / Vivaldi / Haendel / Torelli / Gerber”.
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1989· 8 entries
Released album “Hail! bright Cecilia (1692) / Who can from joy refrain? (1695)”.
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Released album “Dido and Aeneas”.
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Released album “Sonnatas, Volume 2”.
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Released album “Te Deum & Jubilate in D / 4 Anthems”.
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Released album “Sonnatas, Volume 3”.
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Released album “Concerts for Trumpet and Organ”.
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Released album “Odes”.
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Released album “Odes and Funeral Music”.
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1988· 11 entries
Released album “Royal and Ceremonial Odes”.
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Released album “Sonnatas, Volume 1”.
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Released album “Baroque Christmas Music”.
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Released album “Countertenor Duets”.
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Released album “Songs and Dialogues”.
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Released album “Sacred Music”.
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Released album “A Baroque Festival”.
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Released album “Te Deum & Jubilate Deo”.
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Released album “Organ Encores”.
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Released album “Stradivari: Soundtrack From the Film”.
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Released album “Timon of Athens / Dioclesian”.
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1987· 5 entries
Released album “Coronation Music for King James II”.
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Released album “Ayres for the Theatre”.
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Released album “Sämtliche Fantasien für 3 bis 7 Violen da Gamba”.
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Released album “Geistliche Musik am englishen Königshof / Sacred Music at the English Court”.
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Released album “Purcell: Anthems for the Chapel Royal”.
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1986· 3 entries
Released album “Awake the Trumpet's Lofty Sound: Music for Trumpets and Organ”.
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Released album “Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626”.
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Released album “Ode on St. Cecilia's Day 1692, "Hail! Bright Cecilia"”.
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1985· 1 entry
Released album “Songs & Airs”.
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1984· 1 entry
Released album “King Arthur (extraits)”.
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1983· 2 entries
Released album “Canon & Gigue”.
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Released album “Hail! Bright Cecilia”.
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1981· 1 entry
Released album “Choral Works”.
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1977· 3 entries
Released album “Musique funèbre pour la Reine Mary”.
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Released album “Music for Queen Mary”.
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Released album “Dido & Aeneas”.
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1976· 4 entries
Released album “Airs & Duets”.
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Released album “Verse Anthems for Choir, Soloists and Strings”.
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Released album “Birthday Odes For Queen Mary”.
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Released album “Barock”.
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1975· 1 entry
Released album “Anthems”.
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1973· 1 entry
Released album “Welcome to All the Pleasures”.
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1972· 1 entry
Released album “Ceremonial Music”.
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1966· 1 entry
Released album “The Indian Queen”.
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1965· 1 entry
Released album “The Masque in Dioclesian”.
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1964· 1 entry
Released album “Music for the Chapel Royal”.
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1962· 1 entry
Released album “Come Ye Sons of Art / The Bell Anthem / My Beloved Spake - Anthem”.
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1959· 1 entry
Released album “Welcome to All the Pleasures (Ode on St. Cecilia's Day 1683) / Ode on the Death of Henry Purcell”.
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1958· 1 entry
Released album “Homage to Henry Purcell”.
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1956· 1 entry
Released album “Ode for St. Cecilia's Day”.
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1955· 1 entry
Released album “Come Ye Sons of Art”.
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1954· 1 entry
Released album “Music of Henry Purcell, Jenkins and Locke”.
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1940· 1 entry
“s Pausanias, the Betrayer of His Country. In a 1940 interview Ignaz Friedman stated that he considered Purcell as great as Bach and Beethoven. In Victoria Street, Westminster, England, there is a bronze monument to Purcell, sculpted by Glynn Williams and unveiled in 1995 to mark the 300th anniversary of his death. In 2009, Purcell was selected by the Royal Mail for their”
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1901· 1 entry
And published by the Purcell Society
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1876· 1 entry
A Purcell Society was founded, which published new editions of his works
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1836· 1 entry
For promoting the performance of his music but was dissolved in 1863
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1695· 1 entry
Died 1695-11-21.
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1659· 1 entry
Born 1659-09-10.
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