The rondo, from Henry Purcell's incidental music composed for Aphra Behn's tragic play, Abdelazer. Aphra Behn, I just discovered, was an English playwright and poet who was one of the first women in England to live by her writing. More on her here.
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Reading about Aphra Behn, it was a pretty crazy time in British history.
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