John Blow
English composer
John Blow (baptised 23 February 1649 – 1 October 1708) was an English composer and organist of the Baroque period. Appointed organist of Westminster Abbey in late 1668, his pupils included William Croft, Jeremiah Clarke and Henry Purcell. In 1685 he was named a private musician to James II. His only stage composition, Venus and Adonis (ca. 1680–1687), is thought to have influenced Henry Purcell's later opera Dido and Aeneas. In 1687, he became choirmaster at St Paul's Cathedral, where many of his pieces were performed. In 1699 he was appointed to the newly created post of Composer to the Chapel Royal.
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Works
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- Ah, heav'n! What is't I hear?
- Amphion Anglicus
- Amphion Anglicus: A Ground for Violins
- Amphion Anglicus: Arms, Arms He Delights In Arms
- Amphion Anglicus: At Looser Hours
- Amphion Anglicus: Chloe found Amyntas
- Amphion Anglicus: Employed All the Day Still, Still in Publick Affairs
- Amphion Anglicus: Epilogue "Sing, sing, Ye Muses"
- Amphion Anglicus: If Mighty Wealth That Gives the Rules
- Amphion Anglicus: It Grieves Me When I See What Fate
- Amphion Anglicus: It Is Not That I Love You Less
- Amphion Anglicus: Lately on Yonder Swelling Bush
- Amphion Anglicus: Loving above Himself (Poor Celadon)
- Amphion Anglicus: Musick's the Cordial of a Troubled Breast
- Amphion Anglicus: Oh Venus! Daughter of the Mighty Jove!
- Amphion Anglicus: Poor Celadon, he sighs in vain (Loving above himself)
- Amphion Anglicus: Rise Mighty Monarch, and Ascend
- Amphion Anglicus: Shepherds, Deck your Crooks
- Amphion Anglicus: Welcome, Welcome Ev'ry Guest
- Amphion Anglicus: Whilst on Your Neck, no Rival Boy
- Amphion Anglicus: Why weeps Asteria?
- An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell: Duet. But in the Close of Night
- An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell: Duet. Mark How the Lark and Linnet Sing
- An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell: Duet. The Heavenly Choir, Who Heard His Notes From High
- An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell: Duet. Ye Brethren of the Lyre, and Tuneful Voice
- An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell: Solo. So Ceas’d the Rival Crew When Purcell Came
- An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell: Solo. The Power of Harmony Too Well They Know
- An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell: Solo. We Beg Not Hell Our Orpheus to Restore
- An Ode on the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell
- As On His Deathbed Gasping Strephon Lay (A Pastoral Elegy On the Earl of Rochester, Who Died the 26th July, 1680)
- Begin the Song!
- Begin the Song!: Duet. Hark How the Waken’d Strings Resound
- Begin the Song!: Duet. How Dull Were Life, How Hardly Worth Our Care
- Begin the Song!: Overture
- Begin the Song!: Solo & Tutti. Begin the Song! Your Instruments Advance
- Begin the Song!: Solo & Tutti. Bring Gentlest Thoughts, That Into Language Glide
- Begin the Song!: Solo & Tutti. By Harmony’s Entrancing Power
- Begin the Song!: Solo. Music’s the Cordial of a Troubled Breast
- Begin the Song!: Solo. Without the Sweets of Melody
- Begin the Song!: Tutti. Come Then, With Tuneful Breath and String
- Behold, O God Our Defender
- Blessed Is the Man That Hath Not Walked
- Chaconne a 4 in G major
- Cry aloud, and spare not
- Double Voluntary in C major
- Dread Sir, the Prince of Light
- Dread Sir, the Prince of Light [Symphony]
- Dread Sir, the Prince of Light: Solo & Tutti. Let No Disloyal Cares His Peace Destroy
- Dread Sir, the Prince of Light: Solo, Trio & Tutti. This Message We Bring
- Dread Sir, the Prince of Light: Trio. Dread Sir, the Prince of Light Begins to Rise
- Fairest Work of Happy Nature
- Flavia Grown Old
- God Is Our Hope and Strength
- God Spake Sometime in Visions
- Ground in C
- Ground in G minor
- Hornpipe
- I little thought ("A Song on Ingratitude")
- I was glad
- If I my Celia could persuade
- Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened
- Lovely Selena, innocent and free
- Lovely Selina
- Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in G
- Marriage Ode
- Mortlack's Ground
- My God, my god, look upon me
- No More, the Dear, Lovely Nymph's No More
- No., Lesbia, No., You Ask in Vain
- Nunc dimittis in G
- O Lord, Thou Hast Searched Me
- O Mighty God, Who Sit'st on High
- O Turn Not Those Fine Eyes Away
- O pray for the peace of Jerusalem
- O sing unto the Lord
- Of All the Torments, All the Cares
- Oh! That Mine Eyes Would Melt Into a Flood
- Paratum cor meum Deus
- Prelude in G
- Psalm 142: I cried unto the Lord with my voice
- Sabina Has a Thousand Charms
- Salvator mundi
- Sappho to the Goddess of Beauty
- Sett (Suite) no. 3 in A minor
- Sing unto the Lord, O ye Saints
- Sonata in A major
- Sonata in A major [Untitled] -
- Sonata in A major: Brisk
- Sonata in A major: Slow -
- Stay, gentle Echo
- Suite no. 1 in D minor
- Suite no. 1 in D minor: 1. Alman
- Suite no. 4 in C major
- Suite no. 4 in C major: I. Almand
- Suite no. 4 in C major: II. Corant
- Suite no. 4 in C major: III. Saraband
- Suite no. 4 in C major: IV. Gavott
- Tell me no more
- The Fair Lover and His Black Mistress
- The Lord Even the Most Mighty
- The Nymphs of the Wells
- The Nymphs of the Wells: Duet. Blest Be This Morn, Blest Be the Hand
- The Nymphs of the Wells: Duet. But Here Comes a Druid and We Must Retire
- The Nymphs of the Wells: Duet. The Nymphs of the Wells, and the Nymphs of the Hills
- The Nymphs of the Wells: Tutti. We Nymphs of the Founts and We of the Mounts
- The Self-Banished
- Venite
- Venus and Adonis
- Venus and Adonis: Act I. "Adonis Will Not Hunt Today"
- Venus and Adonis: Act I. "Come follow the noblest game" / "Lachne has fast'ned first"
- Venus and Adonis: Act I. Act Tune (Tune for the flutes)
- Venus and Adonis: Act I. Entry: A Dance by a Huntsman
- Venus and Adonis: Act I. The Act Tune
- Venus and Adonis: Act II. "Call the Graces" / "Mortals below"
- Venus and Adonis: Act II. "Choose the Formal Fool"
- Venus and Adonis: Act II. "The Insolent, the Arrogant"
- Venus and Adonis: Act II. "You place with such delightful care"
- Venus and Adonis: Act II. Act Tune
- Venus and Adonis: Act II. The Graces' Dance / Gavott / Saraband for the Graces / A Ground
- Venus and Adonis: Act III. "Adonis, uncall'd for sighs"
- Venus and Adonis: Act III. "With solemn pomp"
- Venus and Adonis: Prologue. "In these sweet groves"
- Voluntary IV
- Voluntary VIII
- Voluntary XVIII
- Voluntary in C major
- Voluntary no. 1 in C major
- Voluntary no. 10 in G major
- Voluntary no. 11 in G major
- Voluntary no. 12 in G major
- Voluntary no. 13 in G major
- Voluntary no. 14 in G major
- Voluntary no. 15 in G major
- Voluntary no. 16 in G major
- Voluntary no. 17 in G minor
- Voluntary no. 18 in G minor
- Voluntary no. 19 in A major
- Voluntary no. 2 in C major
- Voluntary no. 20 in A major
- Voluntary no. 21 in A minor
- Voluntary no. 22 in A minor
- Voluntary no. 23 in A minor
- Voluntary no. 3 in C major
- Voluntary no. 4 in C major
- Voluntary no. 5 in D major
- Voluntary no. 6 in D minor
- Voluntary no. 7 in D minor
- Voluntary no. 8 in D minor
- Voluntary no. 9 in F major
- Whilst on Septimnius’s panting breast (Septimnius and Acme, Ode from Catullus)