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" Der Tod und das Mädchen" (German: [deːɐ̯ ˈtoːt ʔʊnt das ˈmɛːtçn̩], "Death and the Maiden"), D 531; Op. 7, No. 3, is a lied composed by Franz Schubert in February 1817. It was published by Cappi und Diabelli in Vienna in November 1821. The text is derived from a poem written by German poet Matthias Claudius. The song is set for ...
Sumeida's Song is an opera in three scenes by Mohammed Fairouz adapted from the play Song of Death by Egyptian playwright Tawfiq al-Hakim. It is Fairouz's first opera, completed in 2008 when he was 22 years old.
The Songs and Dances of Death have been recorded by numerous vocalists, including Vladimir Rosing, George London, [2] Ferruccio Furlanetto, [3] Nicolai Ghiaurov, Boris Christoff, [4] Kim Borg, [5] Martti Talvela (twice: once with piano accompaniment [6] and once with full orchestra [7]), Matti Salminen, [8] Anatoly Kotcherga, [9] Paata Burchuladze, Aage Haugland, [10] Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Ewa ...
This piece can be heard in the play performed at the end of the movie Shrek The Third (2007). [11] In Neil Gaiman's novel The Graveyard Book (2008) the characters dance the "Macabray". In the audiobook, Danse macabre is played between chapters. Korean figure skater Yuna Kim used the piece as her short program music in 2008–2009 season.
Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children) is a song cycle (1904) for voice and orchestra by Gustav Mahler. The words of the songs are poems by Friedrich Rückert . Text and music
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The English composer Henry Purcell wrote funeral music that includes his Funeral Sentences and the later Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, Z. 860. Two of the funeral sentences, "Man that is born of a woman" Z. 27 and "In the midst of life we are in death" Z. 17, survive in autograph score.
The song contains humorous and ironic references to sex [1] and death, and many versions have appeared following efforts to bowdlerise this song for performance in public ceremonies. In private, students will typically sing ribald words. The song is sometimes known by its opening words, "Gaudeamus igitur" or simply "Gaudeamus".