Tag Archives: Henry Purcell

A Uk organist/composer of vocal and keyboard music.

Clearly probably the most successful musician of his time, with regards to power and financial wealth, Jean-Baptiste Lully was nearly singularly in charge of the form of French opera through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Created Italian, he passed away a rich Frenchman at the first age group of 54. …

William Lawes, child of a place vicar at Salisbury Cathedral, showed (like his older sibling Henry Lawes) music guarantee at any early age group. He found an early on patron in Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, who brought the youthful chorister to his Wiltshire estates to review music along with …

Even within an period therefore richly stocked with great brands, William Byrd needs particular attention as the utmost prodigiously talented, prolific, and versatile author of his contemporaries. Byrd was created in about 1543, which is assumed that he was a chorister in the Chapel Royal (his brothers had been choristers …

As England’s greatest author of the Baroque, Henry Purcell was dubbed the “Orpheus Britannicus” for his capability to combine pungent British counterpoint with expressive, flexible, and dramatic phrase configurations. While he do compose instrumental music, like the essential viol fantasias, almost all his output is at the vocal/choral world. His …