Henry Purcell (10 September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer. Although he incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements, Purcell's style was a uniquely English form of Baroque music. He is generally considered to be one of the greatest English composers; no later native-born English composer approached his fame until Edward Elgar, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, William Walton and Benjamin Britten in the 20th century.
King Arthur by H. Purcell, from Staatsoper Unter den Linden, performed at Staatsoper im Schiller Theater, Berlin, 2017. Directed by Sven-Eric Bechtolf Julian Crouch, conductor René Jacobs, starring Meike Droste, Tom Radisch, Michael Rotschopf, Hans-Michael Rehberg, Oliver Stokowski, Max Urlacher,...