Henry Purcell: A Biography Many regard Purcell as the greatest English composer of all time. That is arguable; but considering his importance in the history of British music, it’s ironic that so ...

Henry Purcell, the eminent composer and organist, was buried in the north choir aisle at Westminster Abbey. He was probably born in Westminster in 1659, son of Henry and Elizabeth. His father was a ...

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Donald Macleod explores the music and life of Henry Purcell. Frustratingly little is known about the tragically abbreviated life of the composer who is arguably Britain’s greatest, Henry Purcell ...

Frustratingly little is known about the tragically abbreviated life of the composer who is arguably one of Britain’s greatest - Henry Purcell. Our evidence for the facts of the composer’s life ...

The cycles of a good ground bass can often feel like the cycles of grief, or even the physical experience of an uncomfortable spiral. If the English Restoration-era composer Henry Purcell were alive ...

In 1692, Henry Purcell set parts of it to music, in the process composing “Music for a While,” which must count among his most popular and best remembered pieces. The play itself would seem a bit over ...

Henry Purcell’s semi-opera “The Fairy Queen” (1692) is the kind of work that the esteemed early-music ensemble Les Arts Florissants is known for keeping alive in performance.

Was Purcell our finest composer? Nobody in this country rivals Henry Purcell for talent, range and vision.

That we’ve reached the 350th year since the birth of Henry Purcell provided a sufficient and welcome excuse in this household to displace the perennial juggernauts of Christmas music—Bach and ...

Many regard Purcell as the greatest English composer of all time. That is arguable; but considering his importance in the history of British music, it’s ironic that so little is known about his short ...