compositions are the anthems (ceremonial church works based on biblical themes and classified as a type of motet). In his instrumental works Purcell followed the traditions of the Italian violin composers. His fantasias for strings and his triosonatas, as well as his works for organ, are ...
During this time he primarily composed sacred music and works for celebratory occasions, including the celebratory compositions "I was glad" and "My heart is inditing" from 1685.Two years later the music for the tragedy "Tyrannick Love" by John Dryden was created. In 1689, Purcell's first ...
The programme will also include the works of his predecessors, the Renaissance masters Filippo de Lurana, John Dowland and Gilles Binchois, but also the compositions of his coeval Tomaso Cecchino who lived in Dalmatia as well as the works of his follower Henry Purcell. A na repertoaru će...
Henry Purcell, English composer of the middle Baroque period, most remembered for his more than 100 songs; a tragic opera, Dido and Aeneas; and his incidental music to a version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream called The Fairy Queen. Lear
Henry Purcell, English composer of the middle Baroque period, most remembered for his more than 100 songs; a tragic opera, Dido and Aeneas; and his incidental music to a version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream called The Fairy Queen. Lear
Songs and independent instrumental compositions Henry Purcell's song setting of Shakespeare's “If music be the food of love” from Twelfth Night, sung by Gillian Humphreys.(more) To later ages Purcell was best known as a songwriter because so many of his songs were printed in his lifetime ...