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Henry Purcell (/ ˈ p ɜːr s əl /, rare: / p ər ˈ s ɛ l /; [n 1] c. 10 September 1659 [n 2] – 21 November 1695) was an English composer of Baroque music, 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 Night's Dream called The Fairy Queen.
The English composer Henry Purcell wrote funeral music that includes his Funeral Sentences and the later Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, Z. 860. Two of the funeral sentences, "Man that is born of a woman" Z. 27 and "In the midst of life we are in death" Z. 17, survive in autograph score.
As a court composer, Purcell was given the task of composing odes for the birthday of Queen Mary. Come, Ye Sons of Art, written for performance in April 1694, was the sixth and final ode: Queen Mary died at the end of that year. [2] 20th-century performances included the inaugural concert of the BBC Third Programme (the forerunner of Radio 3 ...
In 1694, Thomas Betterton was given £50 to transform the play into an opera, and he commissioned Purcell to compose the music. [2] [3] Purcell, who died in November 1695, left music only for the Prologue and Acts II and III. His brother Daniel completed a masque for Act V. [4] The Indian Queen is one of Purcell's less often performed stage ...
Purcell may have first set "Thou knowest" in 1672, perhaps to complete sentences by Henry Cooke for Cooke's funeral. [5] It is a polyphonic setting. [6] Purcell's autograph is extant and kept at the British Library. [5] It is among the earliest manuscripts in his hand, showing some features of youthful writing. [5]
March 5 – The funeral of Queen Mary II of England takes place, accompanied by music written for the occasion by Henry Purcell. Music publisher Henry Playford relocates his London shop to Temple Change. John Walsh and John Hare establish themselves as music printers at the "Golden Harp and Hautboy" in Catherine Street, off the Strand in London ...
John Dryden – An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell (died 1695) [10] John Oldmixon – Poems on Several Occasions; Elizabeth Singer Rowe – Poems on Several Occasions; Nahum Tate – Miscellanea Sacra; or, Poems on Divine & Moral Subjects
Dido and Aeneas, from a Roman fresco, Pompeian Third Style (10 BC – 45 AD), Pompeii, Italy. Before Dido and Aeneas, Purcell had composed music for several stage works, including nine pieces for Nathaniel Lee's Theodosius, or The Force of Love (1680) and eight songs for Thomas d'Urfey's A Fool's Preferment (1688).