Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk He was the leading English composer of the 17th century, writing masterpieces such as Dido ...

Tom Service looks at Purcell’s legacy, and how his music has continued to influence British composers until the present day with contributions from Peter Maxwell Davies, Harrison Birtwistle, Michael ...

Donald Macleod explores the music and life of Henry Purcell. Monday Frustratingly little is known about the tragically abbreviated life of the composer who is arguably one of Britain’s greatest - ...

TICKETS: $35. Visit www.rockportmusic.org or call 978-546-7391. Henry Purcell was the first Mozart. The first Mendelssohn. The first Schubert. Purcell, like these other prodigious composers who also ...

Revolutionary, cosmopolitan and, above all, fun - there is much to learn from the great English composer Telegraph Opera Critic, Nicholas Kenyon, is an author and academic, and former Controller of ...

Henry Purcell was the most important English composer of the era, described as the "Orpheus Britannicus" for his ability to combine Baroque counterpoint with dramatic settings of English words. He ...

Donald Macleod and Purcell scholar Bruce Wood begin by looking at the important events of Purcell's early years. The years of the Commonwealth were lean times for musicians. The restoration of ...

A piece of music by Henry Purcell at long last got its official premiere – only 340 years late. On Tuesday 6 October 2020, a devotional partsong by the English composer was given its first airing in ...