copy and paste this google map to your website or blog!
Press copy button and paste into your blog or website.
(Please switch to 'HTML' mode when posting into your blog. Examples: WordPress Example, Blogger Example)
Henry Purcell - Wikipedia After his death, Purcell was honoured by many of his contemporaries, including his old friend John Blow, who wrote An Ode, on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell (Mark how the lark and linnet sing) with text by his old collaborator, John Dryden
Henry Purcell | Biography, Songs, Music, Facts | Britannica Henry Purcell, English composer of the middle Baroque period, most remembered for his more than 100 songs; a tragic opera, Dido and Aeneas; and his incidental music to a version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream called The Fairy Queen
Henry Purcell: A Guide to Resources at the Library of Congress Henry Purcell, also known as the English Orpheus, was one of the most prolific and celebrated composers of the Baroque period He composed in every genre of his age from odes and anthems to theater music to catches and drinking songs
Henry Purcell - The Kennedy Center In 1679, he was named organist at the Abbey Purcell spent much of his talent in writing operas and incidental stage music Most of Purcell’s theatre music was written during the last five years of his life and he supplied music for more than forty plays
Purcell - Composers - Classic FM Henry Purcell (1659–1695) is considered to be England's greatest composer of the Baroque era Henry Purcell was dubbed the "Orpheus Britannicus" for his ability to combine powerful English counterpoint with expressive, flexible, and dramatic word settings
Henry Purcell: a concise biography - BAROQUE MUSIC Born in 1659, Henry Purcell was the finest and most original composer of his day Though he was to live a very short life (he died in 1695) he was able to enjoy and make full use of the renewed flowering of music after the Restoration of the Monarchy
Henry Purcell - Biography | Deutsche Grammophon Henry Purcell was one of the most versatile and imaginative composers of the late 17th century His life and work in London were closely tied to the political and social changes under the reign of three monarchs: Charles II, his brother James II, and William of Orange
Henry Purcell - ChoralWiki - CPDL "Henry Purcell, was one of the Children of the Chapel Royal, and became Organist of the same in 1682 He was also Organist of the Collegiate Church of St Peter, Westminster, which Place he resigned in 1693
Purcell, Henry - Classical Music Henry Purcell is one of the most important British composers, creator of some beautifully moving operas and semi-operas as well as a huge selection of songs His best known works include his opera Dido and Aeneas (1688), his semi-operas The Fairy-Queen (1692) and other music including Hail!