Purcell Anniversary Year - 350

You know about anniversary years, right? In 2009, we celebrate Purcell, Handel, Haydn, and Mendelssohn. In honor of Purcell's year, one of his best known compositions for choir:



Here's a longer list of composers we celebrate in 2009:

Johann Albrechtsberger
200th anniversary of death 1736–1809

Carl Heinrich Graun
250th anniversary of death 1703–1759

Georg Friedrich Händel
250th anniversary of death 1685–1759

Joseph Haydn
200th anniversary of death 1732–1809

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
200th anniversary of birth 1809–1847

Henry Purcell
350th anniversary of birth 1659–1695

Franz Xaver Richter
300th anniversary of birth 1709–1789

Louis Spohr
150th anniversary of death 1784–1859