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John Blow (baptised 23 February 1649 – 1 October 1708) was an English composer and organist of the Baroque period. Appointed organist of Westminster Abbey in late 1668, [ 1 ] his pupils included William Croft , Jeremiah Clarke and Henry Purcell .
John Blow (1649–1708) William Turner (1651–1740) Henry Purcell (1659–1695) Daniel Purcell (1664–1717) Johann Christoph Pepusch (John Christopher, 1667–1742)
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 symphony song was a musical genre of baroque music best known in the compositions of Henry Purcell and his contemporaries including his teacher John Blow.In the symphony song voices and continuo were enriched with ritornelli for violins or a pair of recorders. [1]
The piece is a clear model for Henry Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas, both in structure and the use of the chorus. The piece is remarkable for the period because of its through-composed nature; there are no clear arias or set pieces, but the music continues throughout, using recitative to further the plot.
This is a list of musical compositions by Henry Purcell. By Z number Pieces ... (originally attributed to John Blow) (1685) Keyboard Air in F; Keyboard Prelude in C ...
Later, the English voluntary began to develop into a more definite form, though it has never been strictly defined. Many composers wrote voluntaries, including Orlando Gibbons, John Blow, Henry Purcell, William Boyce, John Stanley, Handel and Thomas Arne. Often, when English music printers published continental organ music, they would, by ...
John Blow About 1683, John Blow composed Venus and Adonis , often thought of as the first true English-language opera. Blow's immediate successor was the better known Henry Purcell .