#Musica - Henry Purcell (1659-1695): Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, Z. 860 | Jean Tubéry & La Fenice - Queen Mary, the wife of William of Orange, was one of the many victims of the smallpox epidemic of December 1694. The funeral sentences were composed by Purcell for her funeral in Westminster Abbey early the following year. One of the choristers at the funeral, Thomas Tudway, later recalled the extraordinary effect of Purcell’s music; ‘I appeal to all that were present .... whither they ever heard any thing so rapturously fine, & solemn, & so heavenly .... which drew tears from all; & yet a plain, Naturall Composition; which shows the pow’r of music, when ‘tis rightly fitted, & Adapted to devotional purposes.’ The music was used for Purcell’s own funeral later the same year.

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