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1. Henry Purcell is a well-known composer few people have ever heard of." * "An opera is a song of bigly size." * "A harp is a nude piano.
2. Henry Purcell was the greatest English composer of the baroque era.
3. Henry Purcell (September 10, 1659--November 21, 1695), a Baroque composer, is generally considered to be one of England's greatest composers.
4. Henry Purcell was composer to the King's Band and George Frederic Handel was appointed composer to the Chapel Royal.
5. Henry Purcell was probably born in Westminster, then a city separate from London.

Indian Queen

1. The Indian Queen, by Henry Purcell, is a semi- opera in five short acts.

English Composer

1. Daniel Purcell (1664 - November 26, 1717), was an English composer, the younger brother of Henry Purcell.

Influential Composers

1. In the middle baroque the most influential composers include Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687), Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713), and Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695).

Corelli

1. Corelli was of considerable influence on Henry Purcell (c.

Baroque Composer

1. Henry Purcell - Henry Purcell, was an English organist and Baroque composer of secular and sacred music.

Well-Known Composer

1. Henry Purcell is a well-known composer few people have ever heard of.

England

1. The history of baroque music in England after Henry Purcell is very much the history of assimilation of foreign musicians and foreign styles.

Johann Sebastian Bach

1. Frescobaldi's work was known to, and influenced numerous major composers outside Italy, including Henry Purcell, Johann Pachelbel, and Johann Sebastian Bach.

Aeneas

1. In music, one of the best-known adaptations of Roman mythology is the opera Dido and Aeneas (about 1689) by English composer Henry Purcell.

Music

1. King Arthur, subtitled "The British Worthy ", is an opera in five acts, with a libretto by John Dryden and music by Henry Purcell.
2. King Arthur by Dryden, with music by Henry Purcell, is a 'semi- opera ' devised to involve music and dancing, spectacular scenery and elaborate costumes.
3. Two of Britten’s most popular works alongside music by his hero, Henry Purcell, and the latter’s other great admirer, Sir Michael Tippett.

Great Composers

1. Among the great composers of the early Baroque were Monteverdi, Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713), and Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695).
2. He was strongly influenced by the techniques of the great composers of the Italian Baroque and the English composer Henry Purcell.

Chapel Royal

1. His father, Henry Purcell,[3] was a gentleman of the Chapel Royal, and sang at the coronation of King Charles II of England.
2. Son of Henry Purcell, Gentleman of the Chapel Royal and Master of the Choristers at Westminster Abbey, he learned early the fundamentals of his art.

Composer

1. Henry Purcell is a well known composer few people have ever heard of.

George Frideric Handel

1. He is honored together with George Frideric Handel and Henry Purcell with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church (USA) on 28 July.
2. Henry Purcell and George Frideric Handel composed hornpipes, and Handel occasionally gave "alla hornpipe" as a tempo indication (see Handel's Water Music).

Dido

1. Dido and Aeneas is an opera by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell, from a libretto by Nahum Tate.

Purcell

1. OUR LAST GREAT MUSICIAN (HENRY PURCELL, 1658-95) I. Purcell is too commonly written of as "the founder of the English school" of music.
2. It has the subtitle Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell, and takes a melody from Henry Purcell 's Abdelazar as its central theme.
3. They asked Henry Purcell, then only 24, to be the first to write an Ode for their festivals; Purcell was to compose two more such Odes for the Society.

Henry Purcell

1. These forms of music were performed and written by composers such as Henry Purcell, George Frideric Handel, and Bach, amongst many other great composers.
2. Purcell, Henry 1659-1695 Throughout his life, English born Henry Purcell composed music in all forms and styles.
3. Lully's overture form was widely copied, by composers of not only opera (Henry Purcell in Dido and Aeneas) but also oratorios (G.F. Handel in the Messiah).

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