Samuel Pepys’ music revealed in Radio 4 documentary

Samuel Pepys is best known for his diary writing. But thanks to an Oxford University music DPhil student, we now know a lot more about the music he commissioned. Dionysios Kyropoulos of Oxford's Faculty of Music came up with the idea for a documentary, which aired on BBC Radio 4 earlier today. It can be heard in full here. The idea came to him as he read through Pepys' musical manuscripts in a library in Cambridge. The music had been commissioned by Pepys, and written by the composer Cesare Morelli. Dionysios explains: 'Best known for his diary which documents some of the most turbulent and important years of British history, Samuel Pepys also kept a library'and life'full of music.
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