Editing Henry Purcell (section)

== Legacy ==
=== Notable compositions ===
Purcell worked in many genres, both in works closely linked to the court, such as symphony song, to the Chapel Royal, such as the symphony anthem, and the theatre.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Robert |last1=Shay |first2=Robert |last2=Thompson |title=Purcell Manuscripts: The Principal Musical Sources |isbn=978-0521028110 |date= 2006 |page=137 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |quote=The distinctive nature of the symphony song, a genre as closely linked to the court as the symphony anthem was to the Chapel Royal, 16 is underlined by the principal concordance of the longer works in R.M. 20.h.8, Lbl Add. 33287}}</ref>

Among Purcell's most notable works are his opera ''[[Dido and Aeneas]]'' (1688), his [[semi-opera]]s ''[[Dioclesian]]'' (1690), ''[[King Arthur (opera)|King Arthur]]'' (1691), ''[[The Fairy-Queen]]'' (1692) and ''Timon of Athens'' (1695), as well as the compositions ''[[Hail! Bright Cecilia]]'' (1692), ''[[Come Ye Sons of Art]]'' (1694) and ''[[Funeral Sentences and Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary]]'' (1695).

===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>

===In popular culture===

[[File:Henry Purcell "Dido & Aeneas" (extrait) - Les Arts Florissants, William Christie.webm|thumb|upright=1.4|[[Lea Desandre]] and [[Les Arts Florissants (ensemble)|Les Arts Florissants]] perform the "[[Dido's Lament]]" aria from Purcell's ''Dido and Aeneas'', among his most notable works.]]

Music for the [[Funeral Sentences and Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary|Funeral of Queen Mary]] was reworked by [[Wendy Carlos]] for the title music of the 1971 film by Stanley Kubrick, ''[[A Clockwork Orange (film)|A Clockwork Orange]]''. The 1973 ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' review of [[Jethro Tull (band)|Jethro Tull]]'s ''[[A Passion Play]]'' compared the musical style of the album with that of Purcell.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tullpress.com/rs30aug73.htm|title=Jethro Tull Press: Rolling Stone, 30 August 1973|work=tullpress.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303195516/http://www.tullpress.com/rs30aug73.htm|archive-date=3 March 2016}}</ref> In 2009 [[Pete Townshend]] of [[The Who]], an English rock band that established itself in the 1960s, identified Purcell's harmonies, particularly the use of suspension and resolution (Townshend has mentioned Chaconne from The Gordian Knot Untied) that he had learned from producer [[Kit Lambert]], as an influence on the band's music (in songs such as "[[Won't Get Fooled Again]]" (1971), "[[I Can See for Miles]]" (1967) and the very Purcellian intro to "[[Pinball Wizard]]").<ref>''[[Radio Times]]'', 24–30 October 2009, previewing ''[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nf3kr Baroque and Roll]'' ([[BBC Radio 4]], 27 October 2009).</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mfiles.co.uk/composers/Henry-Purcell.htm|title=Henry Purcell – an overview of the classical composer|author=Jim Paterson|work=mfiles.co.uk}}</ref> Purcell's music was widely featured as background music in the [[Academy Award]] winning 1979 film ''[[Kramer vs. Kramer]]'', with a soundtrack on [[CBS Masterworks]] Records.<ref name="Variety_1979">{{Cite web |last=Pollock |first=Dale |date=27 November 1979 |title=Kramer Vs. Kramer |url=https://variety.com/1979/film/reviews/kramer-vs-kramer-2-1200424569/ |access-date=20 November 2020 |website=Variety}}</ref> The 1995 film ''[[England, My England]]'' tells the story of an actor who is himself writing a play about Purcell's life and music, and features many of his compositions.<ref name="Variety">{{Cite web |last=Elley |first=Derek |date=19 November 1995 |title=England, My England |url=https://variety.com/1995/film/reviews/england-my-england-1200443778/ |access-date=20 November 2020 |website=Variety}}</ref>

In the 21st century, the [[Pride & Prejudice (soundtrack)|soundtrack]] of the [[Pride & Prejudice (2005 film)|2005 film version]] of ''[[Pride and Prejudice (novel)|Pride and Prejudice]]'' features a dance titled "A Postcard to Henry Purcell". This is a version by composer [[Dario Marianelli]] of Purcell's ''[[Abdelazar]]'' theme. In the German-language 2004 movie, ''[[Downfall (2004 film)|Downfall]]'', the music of [[Dido's Lament]] is used repeatedly as [[End of World War II in Europe|Nazi Germany collapses]]. The 2012 film ''[[Moonrise Kingdom]]'' contains [[Benjamin Britten]]'s version of the Rondeau in Purcell's ''Abdelazar'' created for his 1946 ''[[The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra]]''. In 2013, the [[Pet Shop Boys]] released their single "[[Love Is a Bourgeois Construct]]" incorporating one of the same ground basses from ''King Arthur'' used by [[Michael Nyman]] in his ''[[The Draughtsman's Contract]]'' score.<ref name="Novello">{{Cite web |last=Chester Music Ltd (World) |date=2020 |title=Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds (The Draughtsman's Contract) (1982) |url=https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/work/11492/Chasing-Sheep-is-Best-Left-to-Shepherds-The-Draughtsmans-Contract--Michael-Nyman/ |access-date=20 November 2020 |website=Wise Music Classical}}</ref><ref name="Songfacts">{{Cite web |last=Songfacts |date=2020 |title=Love Is A Bourgeois Construct by Pet Shop Boys |url=https://www.songfacts.com/facts/pet-shop-boys/love-is-a-bourgeois-construct |access-date=20 November 2020}}</ref> [[Olivia Chaney]] performs her adaptation of "There's Not a Swain" on her CD "The Longest River".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.wnyc.org/story/306488-the-delicate-intensity-of-olivia-chaney/|title=The Delicate Intensity of Olivia Chaney|work=WNYC}}</ref> The song "Music for a while" from Purcell's incidental music to ''[[Oedipus (Dryden play)|Oedipus]],'' Z. 583 was included in the soundtrack of the 2018 film ''[[The Favourite]],'' along with the second movement of his Trumpet Sonata in D major, Z. 850, performed by the [[English Baroque Soloists]], conducted by [[Sir John Eliot Gardiner]].<ref>{{Citation |title=The Favourite Soundtrack - Trumpet Sonata in D Major, Z. 850 - 2. Adagio | date=4 February 2019 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTwyzuoxmxM&list=PLGXVAm2zfXPm2TLno1diFZZh1q2db2IHS |access-date=2023-06-13 |language=en}}</ref>

"What Power Art Thou" (from King Arthur, or The British Worthy (Z. 628), a semi-opera in five acts with music by Purcell and a libretto by John Dryden) is featured in ''[[The Crown (TV series)|The Crown]]''.