Person

Henry Purcell

Sound · 1659–1695 · Westminster, London, England

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.

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Filmography

2025Shani Diluka - Renaissance Royal Abbey of FontevraudOriginal Music Composer
2025Julia Leshneva & Franco Fagioli Bayreuth Baroque 2025Original Music Composer
2024Peace Project With Patricia KopatchinskajaOriginal Music Composer
2024Iveta Apkalna The 140th Anniversary of the Riga Cathedral OrganOriginal Music Composer
2023Dido & Aeneas - Gran Teatre del LiceuMusic
2023Untitled 1Compositor
2022AnhedoniaMusic
2021SycoraxMusic
2019The MusicOriginal Music Composer
2019The Royal Ballet: Within the Golden Hour / Medusa / Flight PatternOriginal Music Composer
2017Peter and the WolfOriginal Music Composer
2015Purcell: Dido & AeneasSound
2010Dido and AeneasMusic
2009Purcell: Dido and AeneasOriginal Music Composer
2009Purcell: The Fairy QueenMusic
2005Dido & AeneasOriginal Music Composer
2002TRAGEDIA ENDOGONIDIA - C.#01 CESENAMusic
1997Romance of the HeartOriginal Music Composer
1996Le dernier jourMusic
1992Above the MountainsMusic
1992WilliamswoodRecording Supervision
1988The TempestOpera
1988Scattered RemainsMusic Arranger
1985Café MüllerMusic
1983Beauty and the BeastMusic
1978Saturday, Sunday, MondayOriginal Music Composer
1977Come Back, Little ShebaMusic
1976Cygne IIMusic
1976The CollectionMusic
1975MirrorMusic
1966Born in '45Music
1966The CreaturesMusic
—Purcell: Sacred MusicComposer
—John Blow's Venus & Adonis / Henry Purcell's Dido & AeneasMusic
—Un cuento moralMusic

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