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- 2025-04-11 Blackbox, HMT Leipzig Leipzig, DE
- 2025-04-10 Blackbox, HMT Leipzig Leipzig, DE
- 2025-02-01 Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ Amsterdam, NL
About John Blow
English composer John Blow was an important influence on Henry Purcell; his organ compositions, court odes, songs, and single opera, Venus and Adonis, are his most important works. Blow was born in February 1649 and was baptized on the 23rd of that month. He became a choirboy in the Chapel Royal at an early age and must therefore already have served in that capacity in another church, perhaps in Newark. Blow studied with the chorus master Henry Cooke, and later with Christopher Gibbons, the son of Orlando Gibbons. In December 1668, Blow was given the post of organist at Westminster Abbey,...
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