Henry Purcell

1659–1695 · Baroque · England

Henry Purcell was an English composer and organist of the middle Baroque era. He was extremely prolific, his compositions including more than 100 songs, the tragic opera Dido and Aeneas, and incidental music to a version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream called The Fairy Queen.

• Chacony in G minor, Z. 730 — for strings
• Sonata in G minor, Z. 807 — Ground bass