Henry Purcell
English composer (1659-1695) · United Kingdom · Musicians · Died at 36
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Something wrong?The English Baroque composer who made court masques and stage works sound like no one else in Europe - a style so particular it still reads as unmistakably his.
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Henry Purcell by John Closterman
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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.
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