This composer never finished a work set in Mexico, his dramatic opera called The Indian Queen.
This composer never finished a work set in Mexico, his dramatic opera called The Indian Queen. This composer succeeded his mentor as principal organist at the Westminster Abbey, and modeled one opera's final chorus, With drooping wings, on the final chorus of Venus and Adonis by that mentor, (*) John Blow. This composer set incidental music to a play by Aphra Behn, Abdelazer, and Benjamin Britten used themes for that work for his work subtitled Variations and Fugue on a Theme of this composer. In one opera by this composer, one of the title characters sings a dying aria set over a ground bass that frequently uses half-step intervals in When I am laid in earth.  For 10 points, name this composer of the opera Dido and Aeneas.
This composer never finished a work set in Mexico, his dramatic opera called The Indian Queen.
Henry Purcell 