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Purcell Remembered (Paperback, Main)
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Purcell Remembered (Paperback, Main)
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Purcell was the greatest ornament of English music in the
seventeenth century, and has been a source of inspiration for
British composers ever since. Michael Tippett, Benjamin Britten and
Peter Maxwell Davies are among those who have expressed
indebtedness to Purcell's musical genius. But his personality has
seemed shadowy; in Purcell's day there were no newspapers to
illuminate his career, no colour supplements to delve into his
sitting room. From the mass of assorted material that does exist,
Michael Burden has assiduously and cunningly devised a portrait of
the composer both in his time and since, using diaries, letters and
official and published writings from the seventeenth to the
twentieth centuries. Many pieces that are known in excerpts are
given here in full and placed in context, including all Purcell's
prefaces and dedications, collected together for the first time.
There is a comparative chronology of the period, a time of extreme
political fragility in England. The fragility of Purcell's own life
is bleakly evoked in the composer's final will, signed on the day
he died, aged 36. As the views of musicians from the three hundred
years since his death show, however, the 'English Orpheus' remains
a vital thread in his country's musical thought.
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