Early Career
He composed a two-part setting of Robert Herrick's "Goe, perjur'd man", written at the request of Charles II to imitate Giacomo Carissimi's "Dite, o cieli". In 1669, at the age of 20, Blow became organist of Westminster Abbey. In 1673 he was made a gentleman of the Chapel Royal.
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