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Purcell, Daniel, -1717

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Personal name headingPurcell, Daniel, -1717
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Variant(s)Purcell, Dan. (Daniel), -1717
Purcel, Daniel, -1717
Associated countryEngland
Birth date1660~/1670~
Death date1717-11-26~
Place of birthLondon (England)
Profession or occupationComposers Organists
Special notePreviously established as Purcell, Daniel, 1660?-1717
Found inPurcell, D. A new opera ... Brutus of Alba, 1697.
New Grove dict. mus. (Daniel Purcell; buried 11-26-1717, London; composer and organist; brother of Henry Purcell)
New Grove dict. mus., 2nd ed. WWW site, Mar. 15, 2001 (b c1664; d London, bur. 26 Nov 1717)
Songs in the opera call'd The grove or Love's paradise, 1700?: t.p. (Dan. Purcell)
The serenading song in The constant couple, or A trip to the jubilee, 1699: caption (Daniel Purcel)
Grove, 5th ed. (under Purcell: Daniel Purcell; born ca. 1660, London, died December 12, 1717, London)
Oxford DNB (Purcell, Daniel; born c. 1670, probably in London; death date unknown, buried November 26, 1717, St. Andrew's, Holborn; organist and composer)
The Purcell companion, 1995: index (Purcell, Daniel, ca. 1663-1717)
Westrup, J.A. Purcell, 1995: page 24 (Daniel is mentioned among the children of the chapel who attended the king at Windsor, August 14-September 26, 1678; as he is unlikely to have been more than 15 at the time, the date of birth would be 1663 at the earliest)
Zimmerman, Franklin B. Henry Purcell, 1659-1695, 1983: page 12 (Daniel Purcell's birthday is conventionally, but as yet undocumented, assigned to 1663) page 339 (family tree showing Thomas as father of Henry [and Daniel] Purcell: Daniel, died 1717) page 340 (family tree showing Henry [and Daniel] as son of Henry [Purcell]: Daniel; born ca. 1663; a Chapel Royal choir boy as late as April 8, 1679, he could have been no older that sixteen) page 391, footnote 39, citing MGG (the death of Henry Purcell [Daniel's father], August 11, 1664, establishes April 1665 as the latest month in which Daniel's birth can have occurred)