Directory of Purcell, Henry Resources

Home > Arts > Music > Composition > Composers > P > Purcell, Henry

The son of a court musician, Henry Purcell was born in London in 1659. He flourished in the English Restoration under Charles II, after Cromwell's Puritan rule was turned back. He wrote a wide variety of pieces, instrumental, ensemble, orchestral, and vocal, but can always be remembered through Dido and Aeneas as the composer of the first English opera. He died in 1695, probably of pneumonia.

Resources in This Category

• Classic Cat: Purcell

  http://www.classiccat.net/purcell_h/
  Directory of mp3s on the internet that have been made available by their performing artists.

• Classical Archives: Henry Purcell

  http://www.classicalarchives.com/composer/3198.html
  Biography, files offered in MIDI, MP3, and Windows Media audio formats, including live recordings of featured artists.

• Henry Purcell

  http://www.hoasm.org/VIIA/Purcell.html
  Biography noting unsolved proof of parentage and early life, portraits, related composers, partial discography from the Here of a Sunday Morning radio program.

• Henry Purcell

  http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0700722/
  Filmography at IMDb lists motion pictures using or based on his works.

• Henry Purcell Lyrics

  http://www.steenslid.com/music/purcell/Lyrics/index.htm
  Texts, lyrics, and librettos from Dido and Aeneas, Indian Queen, and his Odes and Welcome Songs.

• Henry Purcell: a concise biography

  http://www.baroquemusic.org/bqxpurcell.html
  Portrait, life and work, at Court, the Chapel Royal, his Theater Music, Odes, and chamber music for London Music Societies. Music samples.

• Henry Purcell: Composer of the First Great English Opera

  http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=c&p=c&a=i&ID=26
  Biography, suggested reading, timeline, key works, recommended recordings, Purcell quotes, and links from Humanities Web.

• Henry Purcell: Music for the London Theatre

  http://www.baroquecds.com/10Web.html
  Incidental Theatre Music for Distressed Innocence, Abdelazer, Amphitryon, Fairy Queen, and chamber music. Accademia Monteverdiana. CD information plus music samples.

• Henry Purcell: Nine Trio Sonatas (1697)

  http://www.baroquecds.com/09Web.html
  Nine Trio Sonatas from the 1697 set of 10. CD $8.95. Detailed content description and music samples. Baroque Music Club BMC 9. Pini, Tunnell, Lester.

• Henry Purcell: Odes, Anthems, Fantasias. Deller Consort CD.

  http://www.baroquecds.com/39Web.html
  CD illustration, biography, and music samples.

• Purcell's Works

  http://www.lmconsult.com/xpf.html
  Index presents all of Purcell's works divided into categories. By Lewis Morton.

Related Categories

• Home > Arts > Music > Composition > Composers > Baroque
• Home > Arts > Music > Composition > Composers > By Region > Europe > English
• Home > Arts > Music > Instruments > Keyboard > Organ > Organists
• Home > Arts > Music > Styles > C > Choral > Composers
• Home > Arts > Music > Styles > C > Classical > Lieder > Composers
• Home > Arts > Music > Styles > O > Opera > Composers

 

Home > Arts > Music > Composition > Composers > P > Purcell, Henry

 

---

 

Thanks to DMOZ, which built a great web directory for nearly two decades and freely shared it with the web. About us