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, [1] his pupils …

Sep 27, 2025 · John Blow was an organist and composer, remembered for his church music and for Venus and Adonis, which is regarded as the earliest surviving English opera. He was …

Blow had been a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal barely three months when John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester, wrote and scribally distributed a poem that attacked some of the …

The last period of Blow's life (1695-1708) begins pointment as organist of Westminster Abbey upon death of Henry Purcell. Under William and Mary and the court gradually relinquished its …

Commissioned by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Arthur Bliss composed Meditations on a Theme by John Blow in 1955 based on Blow's verse anthem "The Lord is my …

This was the beginning of Blow’s distinguished musical career. In 1668 he became organist of Westminster Abbey, a post he relinquished in 1679 for his pupil Henry Purcell, and which he …

Dec 9, 2020 · He succeeded Pelham Humphrys as Master of the said Children, in 1674; and afterwards had the Degree of Doctor in Music conferr'd on him by Archbishop Sancroft.

John Weldon (musician) — John Weldon (19 January, 1676 – 7 May, 1736) was an English composer.Born at Chichester in the south of England, he was educated at Eton, where he was a …

John Blow (baptised 23 February 1649 – 1 October 1708) was an English composer and organist. His pupils included William Croft and Henry Purcell. Blow was probably born at Newark-on …

He probably received early music training at Magnus Song School in Newark; later he was a choirboy at the Chapel Royal under Henry Cooke 1659-63. In the 1660s he was a pupil of …