Henry Purcell

Composer

Henry Purcell

1659 - 1695

Biography

Henry Purcell (c. 10 September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer. It is said that he began composing at nine years old. As an adult, he became organist at Westminster Abbey, and later the Chapel Royal.

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Song List

This list is likely to be of songs that have been performed at Oxford International Song Festivals and Oxford Song events, and may not be comprehensive of this composer's compositions. This database is ever growing as a work in progress, with further songs regularly being added.

A thousand, thousand ways (1692) Z. 629	Henry Purcell
Ah! How sweet it is to love	Henry Purcell
Amidst the shades	Henry Purcell
Amintor, heedless of his flocks	Henry Purcell
Bonduca's Song: O Lead Me to Some Peaceful Gloom (1895) Z. 574	Henry Purcell
Chaconne in G minor (1680)	Henry Purcell
Dear Pretty Youth	Henry Purcell
Dido's lament (When I am laid in earth) (1683)	Henry Purcell
Down among the dead men	Henry Purcell
Epithalamium	Henry Purcell
Evening Hymn (1688) Z. 193	Henry Purcell
Fair Cloe my breast so alarms	Henry Purcell
Fantasia No. 4 in F major (1680)	Henry Purcell
Fantasia No. 5 in D minor (1680)	Henry Purcell
Fantasias (1680)	Henry Purcell
From Silent Shades "Bess of Bedlam" Z. 370	Henry Purcell
Funeral Sentences (1695) Z. 860	Henry Purcell
Hark! The echoing air (1692) Z. 629	Henry Purcell
Hear My Prayer, O Lord (1682)	Henry Purcell
If Love’s a Sweet Passion	Henry Purcell
If music be the food of love (1690) Z. 379	Henry Purcell
In the black dismal dungeon of despair (1688) Z. 190	Henry Purcell
Lost in my Quiet for ever	Henry Purcell
Mad Bess (1945) Z. 370	Henry Purcell
Man is for the woman made (1696) Z. 605	Henry Purcell
May the god of wit inspire Z. 629	Henry Purcell
Music for a While (1679)	Henry Purcell
My op’ning eyes are purg’d	Henry Purcell
O Solitude (1684) Z406	Henry Purcell
Oedipus King of Thebes: Music for a While (1692) Z. 583	Henry Purcell
She Loves and She Confesses, Too (1680) Z. 413	Henry Purcell
Strike the viol (1694)	Henry Purcell
Sweeter than roses (1695) Z. 585	Henry Purcell
The Cold Song (1691) Z628 no.20	Henry Purcell
The Fairy-Queen (1692) Z. 629	Henry Purcell
The History of Timon of Athens the Man-Hater: The Cares of Lovers Z. 632	Henry Purcell
The Plaint (O, let me forever weep) (1692) Z. 629	Henry Purcell
The Rival Sisters or The Violence of Love: Celia has a thousand charms (1695) Z. 609	Henry Purcell
Two daughters of this aged stream	Henry Purcell
Wayward sisters from Dido and Aeneas	Henry Purcell