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Kassia of Constantinople
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Kassia of Constantinople
0810-0865
by Ashley Duvil
about
about
- Kassia was born 810 in Constantinople & died 865 in Kasos
- 1st female composer
- was nun, poet, and hymnographer, whose musical talents made her one of the most unique Greek woman poets of the Byzantine era
- Kassia was known to be very courageous after standing up to defend the respect of icons.
- known by others in her day because of her encounter w/ the emperor, Theophilus
music compositions
music compositions
- Kassia also wrote epigrams. These epigrams, were meant to dwell readers for their practical, everyday application or consideration
- known to display her sharp mind and wit in her music and hymns
- Kassia’s best known and most popular work is a hymn for Holy Wednesday, in which she gives voice to a nameless woman from the gospels
- She speaks disparagingly of thoughtlessness into her writing, such as Kassia saying, ‘There is absolutely no cure for stupidity.’ and went on to say, ‘knowledge in a stupid person is a bell on a pig’s snout’.
influence
- Kassia's memory is celebrated by the Orthodox Church on the seventh of September, and her life and artistic output continues to be studied and celebrated in both secular and ecclesiastical settings
- In Eastern Orthodox memory, she was an icon known to be a woman of honor, faith, & had brilliant artistic talent
- Kassia wrote forty-nine hymns which can be found in the two liturgical books of the Eastern Orthodox Church
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