His death of an unknown illness prevented him from completing the operatic version of John Dryden's The Indian Queen.
He replaced Matthew Locke as the composer for royal string orchestra and was appointed organist of Westminster Abbey in 1679, replacing the composer John Blow. His death of an unknown illness prevented him from completing the operatic version of John Dryden's The Indian Queen. This wasn't his only collaboration with that poet, as he also wrote music to Dryden's Tytannick Love, and Amphitryon. He often adapted Shakespeare, as in his operatic version of A Midsummer Night's Dream entitled The Fairy-Queen. For ten points name this Baroque English composer of Dido and Aeneas.
He replaced Matthew Locke as the composer for royal string orchestra and was appointed organist of Westminster Abbey in 1679, replacing the composer John Blow.
Henry {Purcell}