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Genre/Form: | Biography |
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Named Person: | Henry Purcell; Henry Purcell |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert King |
ISBN: | 0500016259 9780500016251 |
OCLC Number: | 32142460 |
Notes: | List of composer's works p. 238-250. |
Description: | 256 pages : illustrations, portraits, music, facsimiles ; 26 cm |
Contents: | A restoration childhood, 1659-1668 -- Learning the trade, 1668-1679 -- Rising Star: Purcell at the court of Charles II, 1679-1685 -- Changing fortunes: Purcell and King James, 1685-1688 -- Maturity cut short: Purcell under William and Mary, 1688-1695 -- Epilogue: Purcell's posthumous history -- A performer's catalogue of Purcell's works -- Discography. |
Responsibility: | Robert King. |
Abstract:
Of Purcell the man very little is known, and his personality has to be reconstructed through the age in which he lived, the circumstances of his professional life, the men and women who knew him, and above all through his music. Robert King weaves a masterly narrative, bringing together politics (always in the forefront of Purcell's fortunes), religion, society and the theater, relating all this to the state of music at the time - instruments, techniques, foreign influences, and formal innovations.
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- Purcell, Henry, -- 1659-1695.
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by wyeager updated 2013-03-02