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Purcell - A Biography (Paperback, Main)
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Purcell - A Biography (Paperback, Main)
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In the chaos of the English Civil War and Puritan Commonwealth,
churches were defaced and organs broken, but the tradition of fine
music survived. When Charles II returned from exile in 1660, one of
the first things he demanded was music, sacred and profane, anthems
and motets, pavannes and gavottes. In 1659 Henry Purcell was born,
and his genius would give the period and nation an unforgettable
voice. Jonathan Keates traces Purcell's development against the
turbulent movements of his time - political, religious, theatrical
and social. He shows him growing up in the shadow of Westminster
Abbey and follows him as a chorister in the Chapel Royal, copying
the innovative and colourful style of Matthew Locke; beginning to
composer for the theatre, and for State occasions; writing his
great settings of sacred music, his chamber sonatas, and his
triumphant Dido and Aeneas, the first British opera. In the
background are the heady politics of Restoration England, which
expelled the Stuart James II and brought William and Mary to the
throne. But almost more important is the rich musical history, the
influence of French and Italian composers, blending with and
modifying the native tradition. We know and love Purcell through
his work; his songs were sung in taverns, his psalms in churches;
he was urbane and witty, impassioned and profound. This engrossing
biography is as remarkable for its sensitive critical appreciation
of Purcell's music, in all its forms, as it is for its vivid
portrait of the man, and the boisterous age in which he lived.
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