Voluntary in D minor (Z 718)
Voluntary in C (Z 717)
Voluntary for Double Organ (Z 719)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Purcell
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-Purcell
Although incorporating Italian and French stylistic elements into his compositions which covered a wide field: the church, the stage, the court, and private entertainment, Purcell's legacy was a uniquely English form of Baroque music. With alertness of mind went an individual stylistic inventiveness that marked him out as the most original English composer of his time as well as one of the most original in Europe. He is generally considered to be one of the greatest English composers of all time; no later native-born English composer approached his public fame until Edward Elgar, Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Walton and Benjamin Britten in the 20th century.
Among Purcell's most notable works are his opera Dido and Aeneas (1688), his semi-operas Dioclesian (1690), King Arthur (1691), The Fairy-Queen (1692) and Timon of Athens (1695), as well as the compositions Hail! Bright Cecilia (1692), Come Ye Sons of Art (1694) and Funeral Sentences and Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary (1695).
Although Purcell was organist of both Westminster Abbey and the Chapel Royal, his surviving compositions for organ are very few – a mere half-dozen pieces (the others are a Verse in F, Z 716, a Voluntary in G, Z 720, and a Voluntary on the Old 100th, Z 721). A 'double organ' was simply an organ with two manuals. The Voluntaries in D (Z 718/719) are actually two versions of the same piece – one for a one manual instrument, the other for two manuals. (Purcell's works have been catalogued by Franklin Zimmerman, who gave them a number preceded by Z).
Purcell died on the eve of St. Cecilia's Day 1695 at his home in Marsham Street, Westminster, at the height of his career. He is thought to have been 35 or 36 years old at the time. The cause of his death is unclear: one theory is that he caught a chill after returning home late from the theatre one night to find that his wife had locked him out. Another is that he succumbed to tuberculosis.
He was buried next to the organ in Westminster Abbey. Twelve years later, his wife Frances was buried with him. Both are commemorated on the ledger stone. The epitaph on the memorial on a neighbouring pillar reads: 'Here lyes Henry Purcell Esq., who left this life and is gone to that Blessed Place where only His harmony can be exceeded.'