Talk:Henry Purcell

message: This article is about to be edited as part of an educational assignment by Union University (of Jackson, Tennessee). This is being discussed here. --Kleinzach 06:04, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Educational assignment

message: At different points the article says Purcell was appointed organist in 1676 and 1679 (when Blow resigned in Purcell's favour). This seems like a discrepancy to me. Also, if he was born in 1659, how could he have been 22? --Robert.Allen (talk) 04:17, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Organist at Westminster Abbey 

message: I notice that the dates given in the article for his "early" theatre music seem to have been taken from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica:
::...in 1676 he was appointed copyist at Westminster Abbey,. and in the same year he composed the music to John Dryden's Aureng-zebe and Thomas Shadwell's Epsom Wells and The Libertine. These were followed in 1677 by the music to Aphra Behn's tragedy, Abdelazar, and in 1678 by an overture and masque for Shadwell's new version of Shakespeare's Timon of Athens.
The problem is this is completely contradicted by Holman and Thompson. "Henry Purcell (ii)," Grove Music Online which gives the following dates for these pieces:
*Aureng-zebe 1694
*Epsom Wells 1693
*The Libertine 1695
*Shadwell's version of Timon of Athens 1695
*Abdelazar 1695
Note that the Grove dates are also the Zimmerman catalogue dates. The Britannica mistake may have come from assuming that the music was composed for the premieres of these works, when in fact, it appears to have been composed for later performances. I suspect the article is riddled with these sorts of inaccuracies. Voceditenore (talk) 14:54, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. that's the likely explanation. I'm planning to overhaul our coverage of Purcell in 2010, probably with the help of a couple of other editors, but you should change those dubious dates for now. Cheers. --Folantin (talk) 14:58, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I've taken out the above passage entirely (leaving in only ...in 1676 he was appointed copyist at Westminster Abbey.) but anyone can put it back. It would have been too difficult to integrate it where it belongs (well after Dido and Aeneas) without rewriting that whole section on Later career and death which is also full of inaccuracies in light of modern research. Definitely time for a re-vamp. Acccording to Grove the only significant theatre music before Dido and Aeneas was Lee's Theodosius (1680) and D'Urfey's A Fool's Preferment (1688) plus one song each for The Sicilian Usurper (1680), Sir Barnaby Whigg (1681), The English Lawyer (1684–5), and Cuckold-Haven (1685). Voceditenore (talk) 15:23, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  A lot of date mistakes 

message: The sentence "After his death, Purcell was honoured by many of his contemporaries, including his old friend John Blow, who wrote An Ode, on the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell (Mark how the lark and linnet sing) with text by his old collaborator, John Dryden." in this part of the article is almost verbatim the same as the text on this page: "After his death, Purcell was honoured by many of his contemporaries, including his old friend John Blow, also a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, who wrote "An Ode, on the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell--'Mark how the lark and linnet sing' with text by his old collaborator, John Dryden."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Quincunx 2.71 (talk • contribs) 05:04, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Using the Wayback Machine, the chapelroyal.org biography first appeared on 7 March 2012.  The text you are questioning first appeared in our article in December 2005 in this revision, by Makemi. Antandrus (talk) 05:27, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible Plagiarism 

message: It seems odd that other than the footnote to a list of compositions, there is no section talking about the broad genres of compositions in which Purcell was active. In ictu oculi (talk) 23:55, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Works?

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message: Can the lead perhaps say more about Purcell and his music, instead of running a list of famous others? I don't think the others even belong in the body. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:20, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: No objections. One or two might deserve mention in the main body. Martinevans123 (talk) 10:33, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead 

message: GOTG 3 had Dido's Lament during Rocket's flashback. It ended after the High Evolutionary said "Incinerate them" Nathanlong3010 (talk) 06:04, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Purcell's music is used in many films, tv series etc. and I don't think that this particular example is worth including. Mikenorton (talk) 11:03, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add Dido's Lament from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3