@paulinepark.bsky.social#HenryPurcell was born #OnThisDay in 1659, the greatest composer of the English #Baroque; among his greatest works is his "Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary" in 1695, here performed by the Monteverdi Choir under John Eliot Gardiner:
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@paulinepark.bsky.social#HenryPurcell may have been born #OnThisDay in 1659; the greatest composer of the English #Baroque, Purcell's premature death was a tragedy for #music; this is Dido's Lament from his #opera "Dido & Aeneas," a miniature masterpiece:
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@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social🎶 #HenryPurcell, English organist and composer, was #BOTD 10 September 1659. #ClassicalMusic
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