Henry Purcell

Henry Purcell

ComposerCrewSoundWriterActor Sep 10 (died age 36) Westminster, London, England 1966–2025 (59 year career)
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Biography

Henry Purcell (10 September 1659 – 21 November 1695) 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 to a version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream called The Fairy Queen.

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