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- English organist at Westminster Abbey and composer of many theatrical pieces (1659-1695)
How To Use Henry Purcell In A Sentence
- Though four generations older than Henry Purcell, Orlando Gibbons wrote a body of music for viols that exerts much the same fascination as Purcell's later and more familiar viol fantasias.
- There are probably fewer hard facts about the life of Henry Purcell than that of any other great composer since the Renaissance.
- Written in the form of a theme and variations, Britten composed a central theme based on a melody by the first great English composer, Henry Purcell.
- Conducted by Harry Christophers, the choir will perform motets, anthems and religious songs by the 17th century English composers Robert Ramsey and Henry Purcell.
- There are probably fewer hard facts about the life of Henry Purcell than that of any other great composer since the Renaissance.
- I don't usually blog the pieces that our own choir is doing, mainly because it seems excessively solipsistic, but I was so touched at how this piece by Henry Purcell went that I figure there is a point to drawing your attention to it. Thou Knowest Lord the Secrets of Our Hearts
