Threnus
Threnos (θρῆνος) or Threnody was a song of mourning or lament over the death of a loved one in ancient Greece , which was sung at the exhibition of the corpses and the funeral .
Lamentations already occur in the Homeric poems by the Hellenes and Troops . Later the Threnos formed into a separate genre of poetry , and several poets, especially Pindar and Simonides of Ceos , gained high fame in it.
The Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki dedicated his 1960 composition Threnos for 52 string instruments to the victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima , the Munich composer Ludwig Thuille composed his Threnodie (in memoriam F. v. R.), Op. 37 No. 1, for piano to his musician friend Felix vom Rath, who died in 1905 . The two piano pieces with the title Aux cyprès de la Villa d'Este from the Troisième année of the Années de pèlerinage by Franz Liszt are also referred to as “Thrénodie” by the composer.
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literature
- Threnus . In: Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon 1894–1896, Volume 15, p. 803.
