The Purcell Companion Michael Burden

Name: The Purcell Companion By Michael Burden
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The Purcell Companion by Michael Burden

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The Purcell Companion by Michael Burden

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.

About Michael Burden

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.

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Sku

GOR002813249

ISBN 13

9780571166701

ISBN 10

0571166709

Title

The Purcell Companion by Michael Burden

Author

Michael Burden

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Faber & Faber

Year published

1995-03-20

Number of pages

512

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N/A

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