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Article: Indelible impression.(Music)(Henry Purcell, George Frideric Handel, Joseph Haydn, and Felix Mendelssohn)
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- February 28, 2009
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By happy coincidence, all four of 2009's major composers' anniversaries link in a continuous chain, illustrating, directly or obliquely, two centuries of English musical life. Purcell, born 350 years ago in 1659 and dying at 36 in 1695, overlapped Handel (b.1685) by a decade; at Handel's death 250 years ago (1759), Joseph Haydn (b.1732) was already a seasoned musician of 27; 1809, the year of his death 200 years ago aged 77, was also the birthyear of Mendelssohn, who, like Purcell, died all-too-young, at 38, in 1847.
All three great German masters are deeply involved in the fate of English music--Handel through near 50 years' residence in the capital, Haydn by ...
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