<p><strong style="color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;">Henry Purcell</strong><span style="color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> (</span><span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap; color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;"><small>pron.:</small> <span class="IPA" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" title="Help:IPA for English" style="color: #0b0080; background-image: none;">/</a></span><span class="IPA"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English" style="color: #0b0080; background-image: none;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted;" title="/ˈ/ primary stress follows">ˈ</span></a></span><span class="IPA"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English" style="color: #0b0080; background-image: none;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted;" title="'p' in 'pie'">p</span></a></span><span class="IPA"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English" style="color: #0b0080; background-image: none;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted;" title="/ɜr/ 'ir' in 'bird'">ɜr</span></a></span><span class="IPA"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English" style="color: #0b0080; background-image: none;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted;" title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span></a></span><span class="IPA"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English" style="color: #0b0080; background-image: none;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted;" title="/əl/ 'le' in 'bottle'">əl</span></a></span><span class="IPA" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" title="Help:IPA for English" style="color: #0b0080; background-image: none;">/</a></span></span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;">;</span><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Purcell#cite_note-1" style="color: #0b0080; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a></sup><span style="color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> 10 September 1659 (?)</span><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Purcell#cite_note-2" style="color: #0b0080; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[2]</a></sup><span style="color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;">– 21 November 1695), was an English composer. Although incorporating Italian and French stylistic elements into his compositions, Purcell's legacy was a uniquely English form of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque_music" title="Baroque music" style="color: #0b0080; background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;">Baroque music</a><span style="color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;">. He is generally considered to be one of the greatest English composers; no other native-born English composer approached his fame until </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Elgar" title="Edward Elgar" style="color: #0b0080; background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;">Edward Elgar</a><span style="color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;">.</span></p>