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十一岁就做乐曲在皇家教堂演出,十四岁担任管理及修理皇家乐器之职,因而得到许多音乐的知识与修养,并为皇家乐队做了多首进行曲也是詹姆士二世御前大键琴师。二十岁继承老师的职务担任西敏寺大教堂管风琴师,同时推出很多作品,对于戏剧和教堂音乐多所贡献。直到1695逝世,享年36岁。死后葬于西敏寺他生前所弹奏的管风琴底下。
普塞尔有生之年一直被民众所欣赏与爱戴,可是死后他的名声和音乐每况愈下。英国的爱乐者开始偏好德国人的作品,却忽略了自己的作曲家。十九世纪时,有些普塞尔的作品被印制出版,但多半是经过了修改,他大胆的合声和不同凡响的旋律都被修改过,很多合唱曲甚至被重新配置和声,更糟糕的是有许多被演奏的作品是他最差的创作,于是被误解为一个沉闷无趣的作曲家。
1876年普塞尔协会(Purcell Soceity)终于开始有计划的将他的作品以原谱出版。普塞尔全集的最后一部,第32部,在1962年出版,也因此他的 歌曲和室内乐才开始逐渐地在被人演唱、演奏甚至于灌录成唱片。
作品
Horn pipe, Aground in gamut, Prelude, Voluntary, Sefauchi’s farewell
2.Rondeau
Air in G
Borry in D (Bourree)
Come ye sons of art away, Z.323
Three Parts Upon a Ground
歌剧【迪多与安妮亚】Dido And Aeneas
Overture
Lament
Dido’s Lament & When I am laid in Earth
When I am laid in Earth
Ah! Belinda, I am prest with torment
Act III - Come away, fellow sailors
Act III - 31.See the flags, 32.Our next motion, 33.Destruction’s, 34.Witches’ Dance
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歌剧【女先知】Dioclesian
What Shall I Do To Show How Much I Love Her
Festival Rondeau - Maestoso
歌剧【仙后】The Fairy Queen, Z.629
o First Musick
Prelude
Hornpipe
Second Musick
Air
Rondeau
Overture
Act I
Song in Two Parts - Let us Leave the Towne
Scene of the Drunken Poet
Chorus - Drive ’em hence
Tune
Song (bass), "Now winter comes slowly"
Funeral music of Queen Mary
Ground in D
Hornpipe in Bb
Hornpipe in E-
Hornpipe in E- (ship-board version)
If Music be the Food of Love
歌剧【阿瑟王】King Arthur
Two Daughters Of The Aged Stream
The Genie of the Cold
Fairest Isle
Act III (Frost Scene) Opening and Recit’
Act III, "What Power Art Thou" & "Thou Doating Fool"
March in C
Minuet in A-
Minuet No.1
Musick’s Handmaid (Pieces for Harpsichord) 1689
1.Lesson: Song Tune
2.Lesson: Con Spirito
3.Lesson: March
4.Lesson: New Minuet
5.Lesson: Minuet
6.Lesson: Minuet
7.Lesson: A New Scoth Tune
8.Lesson: A New Ground
9.Lesson: A New Irish Tune (Lilliburlero)
10.Lesson: Rigadoon
11.Lesson: Sefauchi’s Farewell
12.Leson: Minuet
A New Irish Tune
Ode for Queen Mary (1694) - Strike the Viol, Touch the Lute
歌剧【伊底帕斯】Oedipus (opera)
Music for a While
O Solitude
The Plaint
Prelude
【钟声圣诗】Rejoice in the Lord Always (Bell Anthem)
Sonata n°1 for 2 violins, bass et BC in Eb. Adagio, Canzona (allegro), Adagio, Largo & Allegro.
Sonata No.2 for 2 violins, bass et BC in F (Golden Sonata) - Allegro, Adagio, Canzona (allegro), Grave & Allegro.
Sonata for Trumpet and String Orchestra
1.Pomposo
2.Andante Maestoso
3.Allegro
Trio Sonata in F, ’Golden Sonata’
1.mov
2.mov
3.mov
4.mov
Sound the Trumpet, Come Ye Sons of Art
Suite No.1 - Minuet in G
Suite No.5 - Prelude
Suite in G, Z.660 - 1.Prelude; 2.Almand; 3.Corant; 4.Minuet
歌剧【暴风雨】The Tempest
Stephano’s Songs
Flout ’em and Scout ’em
Come Unto These Yellow Sands
Full Fathom Five
Arise, ye subterranean winds
Trumpet Tune and Air
Trumpet Voluntary
Trumpet Voluntary
Verse in the Phrygian mode, Z.126
Voluntary in C, Z.717
The Yorkshire Feast Song (1689) - 1.Symphony