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John Blow (1649 - 01 Oct 1708)

Male Person - United Kingdom composer

Releases (1)

Official

Album

  1. Purcell Ode / Songs from Amphion Anglicus (harpsichord & conductor: Gustav Leonhardt) 1998

Relationships (7)

Students

  1. John Reading
  2. Henry Purcell
  3. William Croft
  4. Christopher Gibbons
  5. John Hingeston
  6. Jeremiah Clarke

Artistic Director For

  1. St Paul’s Cathedral Choir (1687 - 1703)

Recordings by (93)

  1. “Vers” – Fugue in F ?:?? (1981)
  2. Welcome Every Guest 5:22 (1987)
  3. Rise Mighty Monarch 2:22 (1987)
  4. Horace to Lydia 6:14 (1987)
  5. If Mighty Wealth 4:10 (1987)
  6. Musick's the Cordial of a Troubled Breast 4:20 (1987)
  7. A Ground for Violins 5:03 (1987)
  8. The Bud 4:18 (1987)
  9. Sappho to the Goddess of Love 6:13 (1987)
  10. Horace to His Lute 6:11 (1987)
  11. Arms He Delights In 1:26 (1987)
  12. Employed All the Day 3:55 (1987)
  13. Verse in G minor (S8) 2:51 (1994)
  14. Harmonia Sacra: And Art Thou Griev'd 5:14 (1994)
  15. Salvator Mundi 3:42 (1994)
  16. The glorious day is come: 1. Symphony 3:37 (Jun 1995)
  17. The glorious day is come: 2. The glorious day is come, that will for ever be 2:15 (Jun 1995)
  18. The glorious day is come: 3. The spheres, those instruments divine 5:01 (Jun 1995)
  19. The glorious day is come: 4. Couch'd by the pleasant Heliconian spring 2:00 (Jun 1995)
  20. The glorious day is come: 5. And the first trumpet's part 2:41 (Jun 1995)
  21. The glorious day is come: 6. The battle done, the loud alarms do cease 3:00 (Jun 1995)
  22. The glorious day is come: 7. Excesses of pleasure now crowd on apace 2:23 (Jun 1995)
  23. The glorious day is come: 8. Ah Heav'n! What is't I hear? 3:05 (Jun 1995)
  24. The glorious day is come: 9. Music! celestial Music! what can be 2:48 (Jun 1995)
  25. The glorious day is come: 10. This that blest king and god-like prophet knew 1:46 (Jun 1995)
  26. The glorious day is come: 11. And thus by Music's pow'r 2:45 (Jun 1995)
  27. Ground in G minor 3:57 (1995)
  28. Venus and Adonis: Cupid's Entry ?:?? (1996)
  29. Venus and Adonis: Tunes for Flutes ?:?? (1996)
  30. Venus and Adonis: Adonis, Adonis ?:?? (1996)
  31. Venus and Adonis: With Solemn Pomp ?:?? (1996)
  32. Venus and Adonis: Mourn for thy Servant ?:?? (1996)
  33. Venus and Adonis: The Graces Dance ?:?? (1996)
  34. Venus and Adonis: Gavotte ?:?? (1996)
  35. Venus and Adonis: Saraband for the Graces ?:?? (1996)
  36. Venus and Adonis: A Ground ?:?? (1996)
  37. Venus and Adonis: Act Tune ?:?? (1996)
  38. Venus and Adonis, Masque for the entertainment of the King: Overture 3:18 (1997)
  39. Venus and Adonis, Masque for the entertainment of the King: Act 3. Venus: "Adonis, uncall'd for sighs" 5:17 (1997)
  40. Sonate pour 2 flûtes de voix, viole et basse continue en la majeur 6:07 (2000)
  41. Ground pour flûte à bec alto et clavecin en ré mineur 3:09 (2000)
  42. Fugue pour clavecin en sol mineur 3:11 (2000)
  43. Suite pour clavecin en sol majeur: I. Prelude 0:56 (2000)
  44. Suite pour clavecin en sol majeur: II. Almand 3:13 (2000)
  45. Suite pour clavecin en sol majeur: III. Gavot 1:08 (2000)
  46. Suite pour clavecin en sol majeur: IV. Morlake's Ground 4:07 (2000)
  47. Ground pour 2 flûtes à bec alto et basse continue en do mineur 4:12 (2000)
  48. Ode on the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell 22:34 (2000)
  49. Voluntary in D minor (for the Cornet Stop) 5:20 (2003)
  50. Voluntary in A minor 1:37 (2003)
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Credited as (40)

  1. John Blow
  2. Giovanni Battista Draghi, John Blow; The Parley of Instruments, The Playford Consort, Peter Holman, Richard Wistreich
  3. John Blow; Redbyrd, The Parley of Instruments
  4. Blow
  5. Handel, Purcell, Rameau, Blow; Septura
  6. Blow, Corelli, Muffat, Pezel, Purcell; Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel
  7. Henry Purcell, William Croft, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Blow, Pelham Humfrey, Maurice Greene, Jonathan Battishill;Martin Neary,Winchester Cathedral Choir
  8. Henry Purcell, William Croft, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Blow, Pelham Humfrey, Maurice Greene, Jonathan Battishill; Martin Neary, Winchester Cathedral Choir
  9. Purcell, Bach, Blow, Haendel; Alfred Deller
  10. John Blow / John Bull / William Byrd
  11. John Blow; Rosemary Joshua, Gerald Finley, Robin Blaze, Clare College Chapel Choir, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, René Jacobs
  12. Gibbs, Anon., Locke, H. Purcell, Blow, Greene, Arne, Nares, Paradies, G. B. Draghi; Trevor Pinnock
  13. John Blow; Samuel Boden, Thomas Walker, Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen
  14. John Blow; London Baroque, Charles Medlam
  15. John Blow; Henry Lawes, Henry Purcell, William Child, William Turner; Choir of Westminster Abbey, Simon Preston
  16. Purcell, Blow; James Bowman, Michael Chance, The King’s Consort, Robert King
  17. John Blow; Stour Music Festival Chamber Orchestra, Deller Consort, Alfred Deller
  18. Abraham Cowley, Blow, Purcell; The Consort of Musicke
  19. Purcell, Locke, Humfrey, Blow; John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
  20. Cipriano de Rore, Viadana, Schütz, Froberger, Blow, Purcell, Locke, Humfrey, J. S. Bach, Weldon, Handel; Alfred Deller, Gustav Leonhardt
  21. George Frideric Handel, Henry Purcell, Dieterich Buxtehude, John Blow; Iestyn Davies, Ensemble Guadagni
  22. Purcell & Blow; Iestyn Davies, James Hall, The King’s Consort, Robert King
  23. John Blow; Theatre of the Ayre, Elizabeth Kenny
  24. Henry Purcell & John Blow
  25. George Frideric Handel; John Blow; Sir David Willcocks & Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
  26. John Blow; The Consort Of Musicke
  27. Blow; Gérard Lesne, Steve Dugardin, La Canzona
  28. John Blow; John Mark Ainsley, Timothy Roberts, Paula Chateauneuf
  29. John Blow ed. John Williams
  30. John Blow; Catherine Bott, Michael George, New London Consort, Philip Pickett
  31. Henry Purcell, John Blow; Gustav Leonhardt
  32. John Blow; William Lawes; René Jacobs, Nobuko Gamo-Yamamoto, Nelly van der Spek, James Bowman, Marius van Altena, Max van Egmond, Anner Bylsma, Gustav Leonhardt
  33. John Blow; Riccardo Bonci
  34. Henry Purcell, John Blow; Kalmar Chamber Orchestra of London, Alfred Deller
  35. John Blow; Alfred Deller, Deller Consort
  36. Purcell, Locke, Blow, Gibbons; Purcell, Locke, Blow, Gibbons
  37. Lawes, Blow, Child, Jeffreys, Locke, Purcell; Charivari Agréable, Kah-Ming Ng
  38. George Frideric Handel, John Blow, William Croft; RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Justin Doyle
  39. Lully, Purcell, Lebègue, Blow, Nivers; Constance Taillard

Works (127)

Wrote

  1. Lysander I Pursue in Vain (1700)
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Composed

  1. God Spake Sometime in Visions (1685)
  2. Behold, O God Our Defender (1685)
  3. Mortlack's Ground (1689)
  4. An Ode on the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell (1695)
  5. Lovely Selina
  6. Amphion Anglicus: Poor Celadon, he sighs in vain (Loving above himself)
  7. Amphion Anglicus: Epilogue "Sing, sing, Ye Muses"
  8. Begin the Song!
  9. The Nymphs of the Wells
  10. Sonata in A major
  11. God Is Our Hope and Strength
  12. Dread Sir, the Prince of Light
  13. Voluntary IV
  14. Voluntary VIII
  15. Voluntary XVIII
  16. Begin the Song!: Overture
  17. Begin the Song!: Solo & Tutti. Begin the Song! Your Instruments Advance
  18. Begin the Song!: Solo & Tutti. Bring Gentlest Thoughts, That Into Language Glide
  19. Begin the Song!: Duet. Hark How the Waken’d Strings Resound
  20. Begin the Song!: Solo & Tutti. By Harmony’s Entrancing Power
  21. Begin the Song!: Duet. How Dull Were Life, How Hardly Worth Our Care
  22. Begin the Song!: Solo. Without the Sweets of Melody
  23. Begin the Song!: Solo. Music’s the Cordial of a Troubled Breast
  24. Begin the Song!: Tutti. Come Then, With Tuneful Breath and String
  25. An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell: Duet. Mark How the Lark and Linnet Sing
  26. An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell: Duet. But in the Close of Night
  27. An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell: Solo. So Ceas’d the Rival Crew When Purcell Came
  28. An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell: Solo. We Beg Not Hell Our Orpheus to Restore
  29. An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell: Solo. The Power of Harmony Too Well They Know
  30. An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell: Duet. The Heavenly Choir, Who Heard His Notes From High
  31. An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell: Duet. Ye Brethren of the Lyre, and Tuneful Voice
  32. Ground in G minor
  33. The Nymphs of the Wells: Duet. The Nymphs of the Wells, and the Nymphs of the Hills
  34. The Nymphs of the Wells: Duet. But Here Comes a Druid and We Must Retire
  35. The Nymphs of the Wells: Duet. Blest Be This Morn, Blest Be the Hand
  36. The Nymphs of the Wells: Tutti. We Nymphs of the Founts and We of the Mounts
  37. Sonata in A major: Slow -
  38. Sonata in A major [Untitled] -
  39. Sonata in A major: Brisk
  40. Dread Sir, the Prince of Light [Symphony]
  41. Dread Sir, the Prince of Light: Trio. Dread Sir, the Prince of Light Begins to Rise
  42. Dread Sir, the Prince of Light: Solo & Tutti. Let No Disloyal Cares His Peace Destroy
  43. Dread Sir, the Prince of Light: Solo, Trio & Tutti. This Message We Bring
  44. Paratum cor meum Deus
  45. No., Lesbia, No., You Ask in Vain
  46. Amphion Anglicus: Rise Mighty Monarch, and Ascend
  47. Amphion Anglicus: If Mighty Wealth That Gives the Rules
  48. Venus and Adonis: Overture ( - 1683)
  49. Amphion Anglicus: Musick's the Cordial of a Troubled Breast
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Other Databases

  1. https://www.classicalarchives.com/composer/2203.html
  2. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80166827
  3. https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n80166827
  4. https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb148032320
  5. http://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6bz6rcw
  6. https://d-nb.info/gnd/119042983

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  1. https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Blow,_John

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Wikipedia

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Blow

Discogs

  1. https://www.discogs.com/artist/1157619

Allmusic

  1. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0001413238

VIAF ID

  1. http://viaf.org/viaf/76580506

Wikidata

  1. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q311110

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Biographies

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