Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . scina- 32 HENRY PURCELL tion which, in spite of countless weaknesses,insufficiencies, and failings, his music stillcontinues to exercise. Judged from a certain standpoint, Pur-cell was a failure; indeed the most tragicpart of his story is that when he died therewas no one to continue his work. Had helived longer, and had he succeeded in found-ing a school to carry on the traditions thathe had inaugurated with such splendid suc-cess, the whole history of English musicmight have been altered. As it was he left no successor, and when Handel appeared i
Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . scina- 32 HENRY PURCELL tion which, in spite of countless weaknesses,insufficiencies, and failings, his music stillcontinues to exercise. Judged from a certain standpoint, Pur-cell was a failure; indeed the most tragicpart of his story is that when he died therewas no one to continue his work. Had helived longer, and had he succeeded in found-ing a school to carry on the traditions thathe had inaugurated with such splendid suc-cess, the whole history of English musicmight have been altered. As it was he left no successor, and when Handel appeared inEngland, fifteen years after Purcells death,he took undisputed possession of the fieldand turned the course of music in Englandinto an entirely different channel. From the historical point of view Pur-cells achievement remains a monument ofsterile endeavor, yet his career is one whichhis countrymen can still regard with pride,and his personality still speaks to all whohave ears to hear and souls to appreciatethe meanings that music THE MUSICIAN, BY ALBERT MOORE From a photograph by Hollyer, reproduced by permission
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