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
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
The English composer Henry Purcell wrote funeral music that includes his Funeral Sentences and the later Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, Z. 860. Two of the funeral sentences, "Man that is born of
Henry Purcell
…Jubilate until 1743, when both works were replaced by Handel's Dettingen Te Deum. He composed an anthem and two elegies for Queen Mary II's funeral, his Funeral Sentences and Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary. Besides the operas and semi-operas already mentioned, Purcell wrote the music and songs for Thomas d'Urfey's The Comical History of Don Quixote…
Queen Mary II in 1685, by Jan Verkolje. National Portrait Gallery, London
Autograph manuscript of the second Funeral Sentence, British Library