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Henry Purcell

Considering the quality and extent of Henry Purcell's music, his death on 21 November 1695 at the age of 36 - he was born in 1659, possibly on 10 September, in Westminster, London - casts our minds on the achievements of stupendous talent and the hypothetical quantity and quality of such composers if they had reached the Biblical 'three score and ten'.

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