The Purcell Companion

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1995
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Explores every aspect of Henry Purcell's (1659-95) output, as well as the musical background to his life. Ranking alongside Edward Elgar and Benjamin Britten, Purcell's works include Dido and Aeneas and The Fairy Queen . The contributors include leading Purcell scholars. Michael Burden is the editor of a new edition of Purcell's Fairy Queen , the first full publication of any of Purcell's semi-operas.

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Explores every aspect of Henry Purcell's (1659-95) output, as well as the musical background to his life. Ranking alongside Edward Elgar and Benjamin Britten, Purcell's works include Dido and Aeneas and The Fairy Queen . The contributors include leading Purcell scholars. Michael Burden is the editor of a new edition of Purcell's Fairy Queen , the first full publication of any of Purcell's semi-operas.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 512
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 20 Mar 1995
ISBN 10: 0571166709
ISBN 13: 9780571166701

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Michael Burden was Lecturer in Music at New College, Oxford, from 1989, and since1995 has been Fellow in Opera Studies at New College. He is also Dean of New College, and director of New Chamber Opera. His research interests are centred on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century music, particularly English opera, twentieth-century music theatre.

The Purcell Companion

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