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Henry Purcell

Henry Purcell was an English composer and organist of the middle Baroque era. He was extremely prolific, having composed more than 100 songs, a tragic opera Dido and Aeneas, and wrote incidental music to a version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream called The Fairy Queen. Purcell's musical style was uniquely English, although it incorporated Italian and French elements. Purcell is generally considered to be one of the greatest English composers.

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Musick 1798

2021

Latest books

Musick 1798

Orpheus Britannicus

Henry Purcell's operas

Henry Purcell 1659-1695: a tribute

Sonatas

The harpsichord master (1697)

The harpsichord master, 1697

When night her purple veil

The music in King Arthur

Come ye sons of art (Ode for the birthday of Queen Mary, 1694) Edited [with piano reduction] by Michael Tippett and Walter Bergmann

King Arthur: his magical history

Chaconne in F for treble recorder and piano (harpsichord)

The fairy queen, an opera, 1692

Trumpet sonata no. 2, for trumpet, strings & basso continuo

Te Deum (in D)

Thef airy queen

Eight suites

Magnificat and Nunc dimittis, mixed voices, organ (piano) ad lib. Ed. [by] Walter E. Buszin

Remember not, Lord, our offences

Works.

Sonata for trumpet and organ

dido and aeneas

Lost is my quiet

The music in The fairy queen

Six sacred songs for (mezzo-) soprano, tenor or baritone with acc. for organ, harpsichord of piano

There ne'er was so wretched a lover

Chacony in G minor for strings

March and fanfare for brass sextet or ensemble

The masque in Timon of Athens

Sonata for trumpet and strings

Come ye sons of art ; Rejoice in the Lord alway

Man that is born of a woman

Henry Purcell

The tempest

King Arthur

Dido and Aeneas; an opera

Ode on St. Cecilia's Day (1692)

Suite in F major

Trio-sonata for violin, bass viol and continuo

The music in Dryden's King Arthur