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Henry Purcell
Born:1659
Died:Nov. 21, 1695
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An English composer in every category and form of music practiced in his time, remembered today for lively trumpet voluntaries and sweet vocal airs. Dido and Aeneas has plenty of both. Writing it on commission for the head of a boarding school for "gentlewomen" in Chelsea, Purcell included 17 different dances for the gir...
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An English composer in every category and form of music practiced in his time, remembered today for lively trumpet voluntaries and sweet vocal airs. Dido and Aeneas has plenty of both. Writing it on commission for the head of a boarding school for "gentlewomen" in Chelsea, Purcell included 17 different dances for the girls amidst the lovely arias of the mythological libretto, a type of "masque" -- important in the development of opera and a curiously interesting form of theater today.
— "Blue" Gene Tyranny,
All Music Guide
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Popular Tracks
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| Four-Part Fantazias: No. 12 in D minor, Z. 743 |
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| Four-Part Fantazias: No. 8 in D minor, Z. 739 |
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| Four-Part Fantazias: No. 9 in A minor, Z. 740 |
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| Four-Part Fantazias: No. 5 in B flat major, Z. 736 |
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| Four-Part Fantazias: No. 11 in G major, Z. 742 |
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| Four-Part Fantazias: No. 6 in F major, Z. 737 |
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| Four-Part Fantazias: No. 4 in G minor, Z. 735 |
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| Fantazia Upon One Note: Fantazia Upon One Note in F major, Z. 745 |
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| Three-Part Fantazias: No. 3 in G minor, Z. 734 |
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| Four-Part Fantazias: No. 7 in C minor, Z. 738 |
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