Henry Purcell

Personal Info

Know For

Sound

Gender

Male

Birthday

1659-09-10 (36 years old)

Deathday

1695-11-21

Place of Birth

Westminster, London, England

Henry Purcell

Biography

Henry Purcell (10 September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer and organist of the middle Baroque era. He was extremely prolific, having composed more than 100 songs, a tragic opera Dido and Aeneas, and wrote incidental music to a version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream called The Fairy Queen.

Acting

Production

1978

Saturday, Sunday, Monday

as Original Music Composer

2010

2021

Sycorax

as Music

2022

Anhedonia

as Music

1985

2009

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

as Original Music Composer

1966

1966

Born in '45

as Music

2005

Dido & Aeneas

as Original Music Composer

1992

Williamswood

as Recording Supervision

2023

Untitled 1

as Compositor

2019

The Music

as Original Music Composer

1976

1997

Le roman de mon âme

as Original Music Composer

1996

1988

Scattered Remains

as Music Arranger

1976

Cygne II

as Music

1988

The Tempest

as Opera

2024

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