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Number three.

Exercise seven.

Listen to the information about the British composer Henry Purcell and choose the right item in the statements that follow.

Henry Purcell.

Henry Purcell was born in sixteen fifty-nine in London. After his father, he became a chorister, a singer in the Chapel Royal.

The talented boy started composing music at the age of nine. He composed the music to the works by the most prominent poets of his time. His compositions contained songs and choruses, which never failed to please even at the present day.

At the age of twenty-one, Henry Purcell was appointed organist of Westminster Abbey. It was the most honorable position an English musician could occupy at that time. For six years, Purcell devoted himself almost completely to the composition of religious music.

At the same time, he wrote the musical drama Dido and Aeneas, which became one of the first real operas in England. In it, there's not a word of spoken dialogue, and the music is full of inspiration. The opera was very popular among private circles.

In sixteen eighty-two, Purcell became organist of the Chapel Royal, and a year later his first printed composition, Twelve Sonatas, was published.

Henry Purcell is mostly remembered for his beautiful anthems, such as Music to the Tragedy Tyrannic Love. But Purcell's greatest work is considered to be Te Deum, a religious hymn praising God, composed with orchestral accompaniment. It was so perfect that in the years to come it was annually performed in Saint Paul's Cathedral.

Purcell died in sixteen ninety-five and was buried under the organ in Westminster Abbey. His widow published a number of his works, including the now famous collection of songs Orpheus Britannicus.

Purcell wrote operas, religious music, many odes, cantatas, and other pieces of music. He is undoubtedly one of the greatest British composers of all times, whose music hasn't been forgotten.