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Purcell was one of the greatest English composers, flourishing
in the period that followed the Restoration of the monarchy after
the Puritan Commonwealth period. Purcell spent much of his short
life in the service of the Chapel Royal as a composer, organist
and singer. With considerable gifts as a composer, he wrote extensively
for the stage, particularly in a hybrid musico-dramatic form of
the time, for the church and for popular entertainment, a master
of English word-setting and of contemporary compositional techniques
for instruments and voices. He died in 1695, a year after composing
funeral music for Queen Mary.
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