Daniel Purcell
Daniel Purcell (
1664 -
November 26,
1717), was an
English composer, the younger brother of
Henry Purcell.
As a teenager, Daniel Purcell joined the choir of the Chapel Royal, and in his mid-twenties he became organist of
Magdalen College, Oxford. He began to compose while at
Oxford, but in
1695 he moved to
London to compose for the
theatre. In
1700, he came third in a competition for the best musical setting of
William Congreve's
masque,
The Judgement of Paris. In
1713 he was appointed organist of St Andrew's, Holborn.
