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  Henry Purcell

  Henry Purcell (pronounced /ˈpɜrsəl/; 10 September 1659 (?) – 21 November 1695), was an English Baroque composer. Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements but devised a peculiarly English style of Baroque music. Purcell was born in St Ann's Lane, Old Pye Street, Westminster. Henry...
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  Arthur Bliss

  Sir Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, CH, KCVO (2 August 1891 – 27 March 1975) was a British composer. Born to an American father and English mother, Bliss attended Bilton Grange Preparatory School and Rugby before entering Cambridge University. He was destined to display characteristics of both...

• Giuseppe Sammartini

  Giuseppe Baldassare Sammartini (6 January 1695  – November 1750) was an Italian composer and an oboist. A native of Milan, he moved to London together with his brother Giovanni Battista Sammartini. He had started playing the oboe in Milan and in London took up the post of oboist in the Opera...

• John Tavener

  Sir John Tavener (born 28 January 1944) is a British composer, best known for such religious, minimal works as "The whale", and "Ikos". He began as prodigy; he was described by the Guardian as "the musical discovery of the year", while the Times said he was "among the very best creative talents of...

• Matthew Locke

  Matthew Locke (ca. 1621 – 1677) was an English Baroque composer and music theorist. As a boy he was trained in the choir of Exeter Cathedral, under Edward Gibbons, the brother of Orlando Gibbons. At the age of eighteen Locke travelled in the Netherlands, possibly converting to Roman Catholicism at...

• Humphrey Searle

  Humphrey Searle (August 26, 1915 - May 12, 1982) was a British composer. He was born in Oxford where he was a classics scholar before studying — somewhat hesitantly — with John Ireland at the Royal College of Music in London, after which he went to Vienna on a six month scholarship to become a...