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  • Matthew Locke, portrait by an unknown artist; in the collection of the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford
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    …music for James Shirley’s masque Cupid and Death (1653), possibly the most elaborate masque of the period. He also wrote part of the music for Sir William Davenant’s The Siege of Rhodes (1656), which is usually considered the first English opera. Other stage works were music for Thomas Shadwell’s Psyche…

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