• Edward Purcell (1689–1740) was an English organist and composer. Purcell was born in Westminster, London, the only surviving son of English Baroque master...
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  • publisher Edward Mills Purcell (1912–1997), American physicist, Nobel Prize winner Edward Purcell (musician) (1689–1740), English composer Edward Purcell (rugby...
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  • Edward Henry Purcell (died 1765), organist, was the son of Edward Purcell and grandson of the English Baroque master, Henry Purcell. He was a chorister...
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    Old Pye Street, Westminster in 1659. Henry Purcell Senior, whose older brother Thomas Purcell was a musician, was a gentleman of the Chapel Royal and sang...
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  • Purcell (born 1970), Irish-Australian actor Edward Purcell (musician) (1689–1740), English composer Edward A. Purcell, Jr., American historian Edward...
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    1887, Purcell was a railroad town named after Edward B. Purcell, who was an official with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway ("AT&SF"). Purcell is...
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  • The Purcell Society, founded in 1876 (principally by William Hayman Cummings) is an organization dedicated to making the complete musical works of Henry...
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    This is a list of musical compositions by Henry Purcell. Pieces listed according to the Zimmerman catalogue. Z 1, Verse Anthem, "Awake, put on thy strength"...
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    prologue and three acts, written by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell with a libretto by Nahum Tate. The dates of the composition and first performance...
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    Alison Balsom (category Musicians from Hertfordshire)
    Gabriel, a play using the music of The Fairy-Queen and other pieces by Henry Purcell and George-Frideric Handel, which she performed with actors and The English...
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  • Osbert Parsley Robert Parsons Walter Porter Francis Pott Daniel Purcell Henry Purcell Florence Price Roxanna Panufnik Elizabeth Poston Vaughan Richardson...
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  • local comprehensive school until winning a scholarship to study at the Purcell School of Music, London, following which he continued his studies at the...
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    Hail! Bright Cecilia (category Odes and welcome songs by Henry Purcell)
    composed by Henry Purcell to a text by the Irishman Nicholas Brady in 1692 in honour of the feast day of Saint Cecilia, patron saint of musicians. Annual celebrations...
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    choirmaster at Westminster Abbey; the first Abbey organist since Henry Purcell to be given that role. Bridge had successfully transformed the quality...
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  • Fund for Decay'd Musicians by a declaration of trust signed by 228 musicians, including Edward Purcell (eldest son of Henry Purcell), Thomas Arne, William...
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    The Purcell Operatic Society was a short-lived but influential London opera company devoted to the production of stage works by Henry Purcell and his...
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  • – actress Gerard Parkes – actor; moved with his family to Canada Noel Purcell – actor, singer Glenn Quinn – actor Gerry Ryan – television presenter Andrew...
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  • Fairest Isle (category Compositions by Henry Purcell)
    of the best-regarded songs by the 17th-century English composer Henry Purcell, a setting of words by John Dryden. It first appeared as a soprano solo...
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  • quarterly from 1909 to 1913 and also edited church music of Henry Purcell in the Purcell Society's edition published between 1889 and 1902. Several of Arkwright's...
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    Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO (/ˈɛlɡɑːr/ ; 2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered...
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    extensively revised Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (1951) and The Fairy-Queen (1967). Britten's Purcell Realizations brought Purcell, who was then neglected...
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  • Camille Angelina Purcell, known professionally as Kamille, is an English singer-songwriter and record producer from London, England. Camille took part...
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    Nicholas Edward Cave AO FRSL (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian musician, writer and actor. Known for his baritone voice and for fronting the rock...
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  • Alfred Edward Moffat (1863–1950) was a Scottish musician, composer and collector of music. He was born in Edinburgh on 4 December 1863. His father was...
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  • opera in England, but these hopes ended with Purcell's early death at the age of 36. Following Purcell, the popularity of opera in England dwindled....
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    Music for a While (category Compositions by Henry Purcell)
    tenor), harpsichord and bass viol by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell. Based on a repeating ground bass pattern, it is the second of four movements...
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    George Hudson (composer) (category 17th-century male musicians)
    A. Burnham; Edward A. Langhans (1973). "Hudson, George". In Joyce Atwood (ed.). A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers...
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  • Mozart (1845), Life of Purcell, for Novello's Sacred Music, and Analytical and Thematic Index of Mozart's Piano-works. "Holmes, Edward" . Dictionary of National...
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  • composer (died 1755) date unknown – Edward Purcell, organist and co-founder of the Royal Society of Musicians (died 1740) November 13 – Philipp von...
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    Julian Lloyd Webber (category 20th-century classical musicians)
    He is also the patron of Guildford County School and a patron of the Purcell School Lloyd Webber was appointed principal of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire...
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