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HENRY PURCELL

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    • Purcell's Music for a While CD cover
      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...
    • The Meeting of Dido and Aeneas by Nathaniel Dance Holla
      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...
    • 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...
    • Newark Castle and Bridge published by J.Deeley
      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...
    • Henry Purcell by John Closterman
      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...
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