Purcell Society

The Purcell Society was founded in 1876 to make the works of the English composer Henry Purcell tangible by a complete edition was launched. With The Yorkshire Feast Song (edited by William H. Cummings ) published in 1878 the first volume of the complete edition of The Works of Henry Purcell, commonly cited as the Purcell Society Edition ( PSE). Since 1961 ( before the planned total output could be completed ) published the first revised volumes of this edition (PSE II) published by Novello & Co. in London, since 2008, the publication program will continue from the publisher Stainer & Bell, which now also a Purcell Society Edition Companion Series appears with issues of importance to the work of Purcell works of his contemporaries.

Some of the first volumes of the complete edition are difficult to grasp today. All volumes of the complete edition can be found in the Central and Regional Library Berlin.