Purcellianadj.n.

1698 C. Gildon Phaeton Pref. sig. c There is the true Purcellian Air through the whole: that..Mr. Daniel Purcells Composition in this Play is a certain Proof, that as long as he lives Mr. Henry Purcel will never die.

1763 W. Hughes Remarks Church Musick (ed. 2) 16 He has entirely preserv'd the Purcellian Style and has added nothing but what is quite consistent with the..Dignity of Church-Musick.

1889 G. B. Shaw in Star 21 Feb. 4/3 I daresay many of the Bowegians thought that the unintentional quaintnesses of the amateurs in the orchestra were Purcellian antiquities.

1932 A. K. Holland Henry Purcell ii. i. 119 Liszt, whose songs, in their attention to immediate detail, are in the line of the Purcellian ‘scena’.

1959 Listener 4 June 972/1 There is some danger of mistaking for Purcellian influence on Handel what is really the influence of Lully on both.

1996 Church Times 9 Aug. 20/1 The hint of comic opera, Purcellian ground-bass..and the amiable atmosphere of the occasion perhaps tended to sugar what should be a bitter pill.

1922 Musical Times 63 236/1 Even the most determined Purcellian may forgive me for mentioning two things which help to weigh down the scales in Dowland's favour.

1942 E. Blom Mus. in Eng. vi. 91 Only Turner and Croft, both doctors of music and both Purcellians, counted for a good deal, and may have influenced Handel.

1975 Gramophone Jan. 1379/2 I must also especially commend..the direction of that devoted Purcellian, Sir Michael Tippett.

2004 Gramophone Aug. 71/2 Gardiner is indeed a committed Purcellian, but who today could claim to have done as much for the composer as King?