Purcell A Biography

"Keates, like his predecessors, fails in the impossible task of delivering a biography of Purcell. Instead, he offers us the next best thing, which is a history of his music in the context of its times. The book is marred by a number of repetitions...but is redeemed by the quality of its prose, and an urbanity and generosity of spirit in every way worthy of its subject. Keates, too,...has the rare gift of writing intelligibly about music without falling into cloudy bathos or entangling himself in unwelcoming technicalities."Keates, Jonathan is the author of 'Purcell A Biography' with ISBN 9781555532871 and ISBN 155553287X.