Henry Purcell

(1659-1695)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695 NRA: Purcell Henry (? 1658-1695) Composer DNB: Purcell, Henry (1659-1695), organist and composer LBT ID: HePurce1695 VIAF ID: 5118737 LOC ID: n79095298	B/BAP: 1659 DIED: 1695-11-21
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English composer and organist at Westminster Abbey; he produced the opera Dido and Eneas (1680).
REFERENCES TO Henry Purcell: “The Tent: Bristol Hunt and Hampstead Hunt” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 5 (September 1819) 639-42 Found 1: ¶ 8 Charles Lamb to Vincent Novello, [6 November 1828] in Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Found 1: ¶ 4 Charles Lamb to Vincent Novello, [6 November 1828] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 4 Charles Lamb to Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, [24 May 1830] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Verse 1: p. 855a Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Chapter II. Found 1: ¶ 4 Chapter VIII. Found 1: ¶ 5 Charles Lamb Found 1: ¶ 9 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1828 Found 1: ¶ 1 Letters: 1830 Verse 1: p. 855a