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As a teenager, Daniel Purcell joined the choir of the Chapel Royal, and in his mid-twenties he became organist of Magdalen College, Oxford . He began to compose while at Oxford , but in 1695 he moved to London to compose for the Theatre . In 1700 , he came third in a competition for the best musical setting of William Congreve 's Masque , ''The Judgement of Paris''. In 1713 he was appointed organist of St Andrew's, Holborn.