HENRY PURCELL

5 articles related to HENRY PURCELL:

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  Composer

  Music for a While: Purcell's entrancing appeasement of Alecto

  Music for a While is one of the best-known tunes written by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell. First published...
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  ORCHESTRA

  Dido's Lament: sadness and simplicity of Purcell's best-known song

  When I Am Laid In Earth or Dido's Lament is probably one of the saddest songs of the Baroque era, written by the English...
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  ORCHESTRA

  Abdelazer: Purcell's suite for the failed play gained popularity thanks to Britten's arrangement for children

  Abdelazer, or The Moor's Revenge, is a 1676 play by Aphra Behn who is considered to be one of the first known English...
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  VIOL

  Exceptional sensibility of consort music from the traveling maestro of the Stuart era

  John Jenkins (1592–1678), lutenist and string player, was the most eminent composer of the Stuart and Commonwealth eras...
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  TRUMPET

  Nameless trumpet sonata credited to Purcell after years of debate

  Henry Purcell, the most prominent English figure of the Baroque era, covered a wide field of genres, producing music for...