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Wagner composed the Siegfried Idyll as a birthday present to his second wife, Cosima, after the birth of their son Siegfried in 1869. It was first performed on Christmas morning, 25 December 1870, [1] by a small ensemble of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich on the stairs of their villa at Tribschen (today part of Lucerne), Switzerland.
An idyll (/ ˈ aɪ d ɪ l /, UK also / ˈ ɪ d ɪ l /; from Greek εἰδύλλιον (eidullion) 'short poem'; occasionally spelled idyl in American English) [1] [2] [3] is a short poem, descriptive of rustic life, written in the style of Theocritus's short pastoral poems, the Idylls (Εἰδύλλια). Unlike Homer, Theocritus did not engage ...
In "Idyll 6," he is cured of his passion and naively relates how he repulses the overtures now made to him by Galatea. The monster of Homer's Odyssey has been "written up to date" after the Alexandrian manner and has become a gentle simpleton. [6] "Idyll 7," the Harvest Feast, is the most important of the
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Idyll XXVII, also titled Οαριστύς ('The Lovers' Talk'), is a bucolic poem traditionally attributed to the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus, but probably by a later imitator. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The poem tells how the cowherd Daphnis woos a country lass (probably called Αcrotime).
Idyll XXI, also called Ἁλιεῖς ('The Fisherman'), is a poem traditionally attributed to the 3rd century BC Greek poet Theocritus. [1] After some verses addressed to Diophantus, a friend about whom nothing is known, the poet describes the toilsome life of two old fishermen. [ 2 ]
Idyll XI, otherwise known as Bucolic poem 11, was written by Theocritus in dactylic hexameter. [1] Its main character, the Cyclops Polyphemus, has appeared in other works of literature such as Homer's Odyssey, and Theocritus' Idyll VI. Idyll XI is written in the Doric dialect of ancient Greek. In that dialect, the Cyclops' name is "Polyphamos."
Idyll XVIII, also titled Ἑλένης Ἐπιθάλαμιος ('The Epithalamy of Helen'), is a poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. [1] The poem includes a re-creation of the epithalamium sung by a choir of maidens at the marriage of Helen and Menelaus of Sparta. [2] The idea is said to have been borrowed from an old poem by ...