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Biographical dictionary of musicians, 1940
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1The Fairy Queen (an arr. of the Midsummer Night's Dream), D'Urfey's The Marriage-hater Matched, Crown's Regulus, Shadwell's The Libertine, Bancroft's Henry II, Dryden's Aureng-Zebe, Dryden and Lee's Œdipus; 1693, Congreve's The Old Bachelor, D'Urfey's The Richmond Heiress, Southerne's The Maid's Last Prayer, Wright's The Female Virtuoses (after Molière), Congreve's The Double Dealer, Shadwell's Epsom Wells, Killigrene's Rule a Wife and Have a Wife; 1694, D'Urfey's Don Quixote (part I), Dryden's Love Triumphant, Crown's The Married Beau, Southerne's The Fatal Marriage, Ravenscroft's The Canterbury Guests, D'Urfey's Don Quixote (part II), Shadwell's arr. of Timon of Athens, Dryden's The Spanish Friar, Dryden's Tyrannic Love; 1695, Behn's Andelazer, Beaumont and Fletcher's Bonduca, Howard and Dryden's Indian Queen, Scott's The Mock Marriage, Norton's Pausanias, Gould's The Rival Sisters, Southerne's Oroonoko, Davenant and Dryden's arr. of The Tempest, D'Urfey's Don Quixote (part III). In this list only Dioclesian, The Fairy Queen, The Indian Queen and King Arthur are provided with sufficient music to be possibly classed as 'semi-operas'; the music contributed to the other dramas consists of some airs and instrl. dances. P.'s widow, who survived him till 1706, publ. A Choice Coll. of Lessons for the Harpsichord or Spinet (1696), Ten Sonatas in Four Parts (1697), Orpheus Britannicus: A Coll. of the choicest Songs … with … Symphonies for Violins or Flutes … (Part I, 1698, 2d ed. 1706; Part II, 1702, 2d ed. 1711; both parts in 1 vol., with the addition of several new numbers, 1721). Many comps. were publ. in Playford's 'Mercurius Musicus' 1699), Walsh's 'The Catch Club, or Merry Companions' (ca. 1730), Boyce's 'Cathedral Music' (3 vols., 1760-73), Arnold's continuation of the same (4 vols., 1790), Page and Sexton's 'Harmonia Sacra' (3 vols., 1800). Vincent Novello collected all services, anthems, hymns and sacred songs, and publ. them as P.'s Sacred Music (4 vols., 1829-32; very inaccurate). The Musical Antiquarian Soc. publ. Dido and Æneas (ed. G. A. Macfarren, 1840), Bonduca (ed. E. F. Rimbault, 1842; with historical sketch of dram. music in England), King Arthur (ed. E. Taylor, 1843), Ode for St. Cecilia's Day (ed. E. F. Rimbault, 1847). In 1876 the Purcell Society was formed in London for the purpose of publishing the first complete ed. of P.'s works (vol. I appeared in 1878; 26 vols. have been brought out thus far, publ. by Novello & Co.). The P. Soc. also began to publ. a 'Popular Ed. of Selected Works' (vol. I: [address hidden] and Airs; London, 1939). Various selections have been publ. by P. Warlock (3-8 vcd. Fantasias), G. Jensen, A. Egidi, A. Moffat and H. David (trio-sonatas), W. Barclay Squire (harpsichord-pcs.), A. Schering in Geschichte der Musik in Beispielen (Nos. 246-48a), Höckner (pcs. for str.-orch.), F. Blume in Das Chorwerk (5 sacred chors.), E. Dent (Let the Dreadful Engines), W. Gillies Whittaker (22 sonatas [Eds. de l'Oiseau-Lyre, Paris]), etc.—BIBLIOGRAPHY: W. H. Cummings, H. P. (London, 1881; 3rd ed. 1911; pop. ed. 1923); W. Barclay Squire, P.'s Dramatic Music, in 'Sbd. Int. M.-G.' V, 4 (1904); J. F. Runciman, P. (London, 1909); G. E. Arkwright, P.'s Church Music, in the 'Mus. Antiquary' (July, 1910); P. A. Scholes, H. P. Sketch of a Busy Life, in the 'Mus. Quart.' (July, 1916); W. Barclay Squire, P.'s 'Dido and Æneas', in the 'M.T.' (June, 1918); H. Dupré, P. (Paris, 1927; in Engl., N. Y., 1928); D. Arundell, H. P. (London, 1927; Ger., 1929); E. Dent, Foundations of the English Opera (1928); G. Azulay, P. the Boy (London, 1931); A. K. Holland, H. P., the English Musical Tradition (Liverpool and London, 1932); F. de Guervani, Der Chorstil H. P.s (Leipzig, 1935); J. A. Westrup, P. (London, 1937).
3Pus'tet, Friedrich, b. Hals, n. Passau. In 1826 founded a publ. firm for church-mus. in Ratisbon. For 30 years had the exclusive right of printing, with privilege of the Pope, the choral books according to the 'Editio Medicaea' (now discontinued). In 1921 merged with the publ. house of Kösel, retaining, however, the orig. firm name. Pustet now has branch establishments in Rome, New York and Cincinnati. Has publ. Proske's Musica divina; P. Wagner's Elemente des gregorianischen Gesangs; Johner's Cantus ecclesiastici; 'Kirchenmusikalisches Jahrb.'; etc.
5Pyne, James Kendrick, organist; b. Bath, Engl., Feb. 5, 1852; d. London, Sept. 3, 1938. Pupil of his father, James K. (for 53 years org. at Bath Abbey); then of Dr. S. S. Wesley, org. at Winchester Cath. At the age of 11 he was app. regular org. at All Saints'Chapel, Bath, and when at the age of 21 he became org. of Chichester Cath., he had already held five positions; in 1875 he was org. at St. Mark's, Philadelphia, but returned to England in 1876 as succ. to Sir F. Bridge at Manchester Cath., where he remained till 1898; app. also town-org. in 1877; prof. of organ at R. C. M., Manchester, in 1893; in 1901 lecturer on church-music, 1903 Univ. org., and 1908 dean of faculty of music at Victoria Univ., Manchester. In 1887 he was official org. for the Jubilee Expos. in Manchester, and in 1888 member of the jury at the Brussels Expos. Made Mus. Doc. by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1900; hon. mem. R. A. M. in 1902. He exhibited his valuable coll. of early mus. instrs. at the
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