Fairest Isle
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"Fairest Isle" is one of the best-regarded songs by the 17th-century English composer Henry Purcell, a setting of words by John Dryden. It first appeared as a soprano solo in their semi-opera King Art
Portrait of Henry Purcell by John Closterman, c. 1695
Henry Purcell
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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
Fairest Isle
…Fairest Isle" is one of the best-regarded songs by the 17th-century English composer Henry Purcell, a setting of words by John Dryden. It first appeared as a soprano solo in their semi-opera King Arthur (1691), where it is sung by the goddess Venus…
Engraved portrait of Purcell by R. White after Closterman, from Orpheus Britannicus
Purcell's manuscript copy of When on my sick bed I languish (c. 1680)
Henry Purcell by John Closterman
"The Flowering of the English Baroque", bronze memorial sculpture by Glynn Williams in a small park on Victoria St, Westminster