# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henry-purcell
# Generated: 2026-08-31T18:40:32.956Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Henry Purcell was born around 10 September 1659 and became an organist and composer in the middle Baroque, working in a musical language that was distinctly English even as it borrowed from Italian and French currents. He was extremely prolific: more than 100 songs, the tragic opera Dido and Aeneas, and incidental music to a version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream called The Fairy Queen. He died on 21 November 1695, generally considered one of the greatest English composers.