0790OrpheusEurydice_Schubert

0790OrpheusEurydice_Schubert

OGCMA s.v. "Orpheus and Eurydice"
Classical Sources:
Plato, Symposium, 179c-e
Diodorus Siculus, Bibl., 4.25.4, 81-82
Vergil, Georgics 4.315-558
Ovid Metamorphoses 10.1-85, 11.66
Apollodorus Libr. 1.3.2
Hyginus Poet. Astron. 2.7

Franz Schubert, "Lied des Orpheus, als er in die Hölle ging" (D. 474), lied, text from Jacobi (1792).

Reid lists two versions, one from Sept 1816, incomplete, published 1895; a second, 1816, published 1832.

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See Oxford Music Dictionary (Grove) (1980) 16:794.

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.