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Name: Henry Purcell
Birth Date: 1659
Death Date: 1695
Place of Birth: Westminster, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: composer

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Biography of Henry Purcell
819 words, approx. 3 pages
The English composer and organist Henry Purcell (1659-1695) was the only great figure of English opera until recent times. In all his works he achieved a happy merger of English traditional styles with the new baroque principles from Italy. Henry...


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Henry Purcell Information
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Henry Purcell (IPA: /ˈpɜrsəl/;[1] September 10, 1659 (?),[2], –November 21, 1695, was an English Baroque composer. He has often been called England's finest native composer. Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements but devised a...


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Musical Opinion
The Complete Sacred Music of Henry Purcell
07/01/2003: 708 words, approx. 2 pages
THE COMPLETE SACRED MUSIC OF HENRY PURCELL Lynne Dawson and Susan Gritton: Sopranos James Bowman: Counter-tenor Mark Padmore: Tenor Michael George:Bass Choir of New College Oxford Directed by Edward Higginbottom Choir and Orchestra of the King's ...
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Performing the Music of Henry Purcell. (book reviews)
03/01/1998: 2,029 words, approx. 7 pages
This volume was generated by and now commemorates a conference of the same title held at Exeter College, Oxford, in 1993. After an introductory essay by Nicholas Kenyon, the book is divided into sections on "Performing the Music" and "Staging the Operas," with...
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The New York Observer
Morris Honors 25 Years With Canny Selection of Works
4/2/2006: 1,192 words, approx. 4 pages
The past three weeks at B.A.M. were given over to a celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Mark Morris Dance Group—a proper cause for celebration. Morris chose to present a retrospective of his most famous works (although the most famous of all, L’Allegro, il...
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The New York Observer
Morris Honors 25 Years With Canny Selection of Works
4/2/2006: 1,192 words, approx. 4 pages
The past three weeks at B.A.M. were given over to a celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Mark Morris Dance Group—a proper cause for celebration. Morris chose to present a retrospective of his most famous works (although the most famous of all, L’Allegro, il...
 


 

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