十六和十七世纪,英国的音乐家曾以他们的才能和独创风格在欧洲享有盛誉,可叹这些早期作曲家如今已不为人知晓,但他们在键盘音乐中积累的经验确立了欧洲十七、十八乃至十九世纪大键盘和钢琴音乐的形式。在以后的年代里,英国几乎没有产生有世界影响的音乐家,有名望的作曲家寥寥无几,如十七、十八世纪的柏塞尔、二十一世纪的艾尔加。有些人认为在德国出身的亨德尔是英国人,因为他后来在英国生活和从事作曲,并成了英国公民,他的最优秀 In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, British musicians were renowned in Europe for their talent and inventive style, but these early composers are now unknown, but their experience with keyboard music has established that Europe’s seventeen , 18th and even 19th centuries in the form of big keyboard and piano music. Few music-producing world-influenced musicians emerged in the years to come. There were only a handful of prestigious composers, such as Bousell in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and Elgar in the twenty-first century. Some people think that Handel, who came from Germany, is British because he later lived and worked as a composer in England and became a British citizen. His best