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John Blow

British composer John Blow was a significant influence about Henry Purcell; his body organ compositions, courtroom odes, tunes, and solitary opera, Venus and Adonis, are his most significant works. Blow was created in Feb 1649 and was baptized around the 23rd of this month. He became a choirboy in the …

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