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''[[Dido and Aeneas]]'' is an Opera by [[Henry Purcell]] set to words by [[Nahum Tate]]. It premiered between 1687 and 1689<ref name="EnglishWiki"/>. The claim by John Hawkins made in ''The General History of the Science and Practice of Music'' that the opera was first performed in 1675, so Purcell | ''[[Dido and Aeneas]]'' is an Opera by [[Henry Purcell]] set to words by [[Nahum Tate]]. It premiered between 1687 and 1689<ref name="EnglishWiki"/>. The claim by John Hawkins made in ''The General History of the Science and Practice of Music'' that the opera was first performed in 1675, so Purcell would have been 19 years old at its creation <ref name="Hawkins"/>, a claim that is quoted by G. Alex. MacFarren, professor of harmony at the Royal Academy of Music and editor of the first printed edition ({{circa}} 1841 <ref name="Score"/>, cannot be consolidated and conflicts with the Zimmermann catalogue<ref name="Zimmermann"/> | ||
[[File:Cover dido and aeneas.jpg|width=200px|frame|alt=The cover of the edition by the Musical Antiquarian Society edited by McFarren showing the (probably erroneous) date of 1675|The cover of the edition by the Musical Antiquarian Society edited by McFarren showing the (probably erroneous) date of 1675]] | [[File:Cover dido and aeneas.jpg|width=200px|frame|alt=The cover of the edition by the Musical Antiquarian Society edited by McFarren showing the (probably erroneous) date of 1675|The cover of the edition by the Musical Antiquarian Society edited by McFarren showing the (probably erroneous) date of 1675]] | ||
The cover of the edition by the Musical Antiquarian Society edited by McFarren showing the (probably erroneous) date of 1675. | The cover of the edition by the Musical Antiquarian Society edited by McFarren showing the (probably erroneous) date of 1675. | ||
''Dido and Aeneas'', after its first set of performances, was never again performed in Purcell's lifetime.<ref name="EnglishWiki"/> | |||
==Synopsis== | ==Synopsis== | ||