Editing Henry Purcell (section)

===Influence and reputation===
[[File:The Flowering of the English Baroque, Henry Purcell, London.JPG|thumb|upright|"The Flowering of the English Baroque", bronze memorial sculpture by [[Glynn Williams]] in a small park on [[Victoria, London|Victoria St, Westminster]]]]

After his death, Purcell was honoured by many of his contemporaries, including his old friend [[John Blow]], who wrote ''An Ode, on the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell (Mark how the lark and linnet sing)'' with text by his old collaborator, John Dryden. [[William Croft]]'s 1724 [[service (music)|setting]] for the Burial Service was written in the style of "the great Master". Croft preserved Purcell's setting of "Thou knowest Lord" (Z 58) in his service, for reasons "obvious to any artist"; it has been sung at every British [[state funeral]] ever since.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=SvD9Ou7wdccC&pg=PA93 Melvin P. Unger, ''Historical Dictionary of Choral Music''], Scarecrow Press 2010, {{ISBN|978-0-8108-5751-3}} (p.93)</ref> More recently, the English poet [[Gerard Manley Hopkins]] wrote a famous sonnet entitled simply "Henry Purcell", with a headnote reading: "The poet wishes well to the divine genius of Purcell and praises him that, whereas other musicians have given utterance to the moods of man's mind, he has, beyond that, uttered in notes the very make and species of man as created both in him and in all men generally."<ref>{{Cite web |last=International Hopkins Association |date=2018 |title=Henry Purcell |url=https://hopkinspoetry.com/poem/henry-purcell/ |access-date=19 November 2020 |website=Gerard Manley Hopkins}}</ref>

Purcell also had a strong influence on the composers of the English musical renaissance of the early 20th century, most notably [[Benjamin Britten]], who arranged many of Purcell's vocal works for voice(s) and piano in ''[[Britten's Purcell Realizations]]'', including from ''Dido and Aeneas'', and whose ''[[The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra]]'' is based on a theme from Purcell's ''[[Abdelazar]]''. Stylistically, the aria "I know a bank" from Britten's opera ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream (opera)|A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' is clearly inspired by Purcell's aria "Sweeter than Roses", which Purcell originally wrote as part of [[incidental music]] to Richard Norton's ''[[Pausanias (general)|Pausanias]], the Betrayer of His Country''.<ref name=Brett>{{cite book|last=Brett|first=Philip|title=Britten's Dream|year=1990|publisher=[[Decca Records]]|author-link=Philip Brett|type =Brief essay to accompany the Britten recording}}</ref>

In a 1940 interview [[Ignaz Friedman]] stated that he considered Purcell as great as Bach and [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]]. In Victoria Street, Westminster, England, there is a bronze monument to Purcell, sculpted by [[Glynn Williams]] and unveiled in 1995 to mark the 300th anniversary of his death.<ref name="Matthews_2018">{{Cite book |last=Matthews |first=P. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zl5RDwAAQBAJ&q=%22Henry+Purcell%22+statue+%22victoria%22+Glyn+Williams&pg=PA128 |title=London's Statues and Monuments: Revised Edition |publisher=Bloomsbury |year=2018 |isbn=9781784422585 |pages=128}}</ref> In 2009, Purcell was selected by the [[Royal Mail]] for their [[Great Britain commemorative stamps 2000–2009|"Eminent Britons" commemorative postage stamp]] issue.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Royal Mail celebrate eminent Britons |url=https://www.thetimes.com/sport/football/article/the-royal-mail-celebrate-eminent-britons-xxdbrr6jzjt |date=8 October 2009 |access-date=30 September 2022 |work=[[The Times]]}}</ref>

A Purcell Club was founded in London in 1836 for promoting the performance of his music but was dissolved in 1863. In 1876 a [[Purcell Society]] was founded, which published new editions of his works.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=659}} A modern-day Purcell Club has been created, and provides guided tours and concerts in support of Westminster Abbey.<ref>{{cite web |title=Purcell Club : a Private Musical Tour of Westminster Abbey |url=https://www.anglo-netherlands.org.uk/archive/2017-2/purcell-club-a-private-musical-tour-of-westminster-abbey/ |website=Anglo-Netherlands Society |access-date=18 August 2022}}</ref>

Today there is a Henry Purcell Society of Boston, which performs his music in live concert.<ref name="HPSB">{{Cite web |date=2020 |title=Virtual Season 2020 |url=https://bostonpurcell.org/virtual-events-2020 |website=Henry Purcell Society of Boston |access-date=20 November 2020 |archive-date=13 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413203125/https://bostonpurcell.org/virtual-events-2020 |url-status=dead }}</ref> There is a [[Purcell Society]] in London, which collects and studies Purcell manuscripts and musical scores, concentrating on producing revised versions of the scores of all his music.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Purcell Society|url=http://www.henrypurcell.org.uk/|access-date=29 December 2021|website=The Purcell Society|language=en-US}}</ref> Purcell's works have been catalogued by [[Franklin B. Zimmerman|Franklin Zimmerman]], who gave them a number preceded by Z.<ref name="Shay_&_Thompson_2006">{{Cite book |last1=Shay |first1=R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XYnyZzbUjtYC&q=Zimmerman+Z+numbers+Henry+Purcell&pg=PR13 |title=Purcell Manuscripts: The Principal Musical Sources |last2=Thompson |first2=R. |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2006 |isbn=9780521028110 |page=xiii}}</ref>

So strong was his reputation that a popular wedding processional was incorrectly attributed to Purcell for many years. The so-called ''Purcell's Trumpet Voluntary'' was in fact written around 1700 by a British composer named [[Jeremiah Clarke]] as the ''[[Prince of Denmark's March]]''.<ref name="Cooper_1978">{{Cite journal |last=Cooper |first=B. |date=1978 |title=Did Purcell Write a Trumpet Voluntary?–1 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/959617 |journal=The Musical Times |volume=119 |issue=1627 |pages=791–793 |doi=10.2307/959617|jstor=959617 }}</ref>