Kassia
Sign in to saveKassia, Cassia, Kassiane, or Kassiani (, ; – c.865) was a Byzantine-Greek composer, hymnographer and poet. She holds a unique place in Byzantine music as the only known woman whose music appears in the Byzantine liturgy. Approximately fifty of her hymns are extant, most of which are stichera, though at least 26 have uncertain attribution. The authenticity issues are due to many hymns being anonymous, and others ascribed to different authors in different manuscripts. She was an abbess of a convent in the west of Constantinople.
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- 0810-00-00
- Died
- 0865-00-00
- Works
- 4
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Kassia (also Kassiane, Kassiani, Casia, Ikasia, Cassia, or Eikasia; between 805 and 810 - bef. 867) was a Greek-Byzantine poet, composer, and hymnographer. She is one of the first medieval composers whose scores are both extant and able to be interpreted by modern scholars and musicians. Approximately fifty of her hymns are extant and twenty-three are included in Orthodox Church liturgical books. The exact number is difficult to assess, as many hymns <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Kassia">R
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Key facts
- Saint.name
- Kassia
- Saint.honorific_prefix
- Saint
- Saint.birth_date
- c. 810
- Saint.death_date
- c. 865
- Saint.feast_day
- 7 September
- Saint.venerated_in
- Eastern Orthodox ChurchCatholic ChurchAnglican Communion
- Saint.image
- Kassia.jpg
- Saint.caption
- Icon of St. Kassia
- Saint.birth_place
- Constantinople(modern-day Istanbul, Turkey)
- Saint.death_place
- Kasos
- Saint.canonized_date
- Pre-congregation
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Key dates
- Born
- 810
- Died
- 865
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Byzantine Empire
- Place of birth
- Istanbul
- Place of death
- Istanbul
- Occupation
- nun
- Position held
- abbess
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
- Religion
- Eastern Orthodox Church
- Field of work
- hymnology
Article
15 sectionsContents
- Name
- Life
- Works
- Overview
- Sacred music
- Hymn of Kassia
- Other hymns
- Secular writings
- Portrayals
- Religious commemoration
- Recordings
- References
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
Kassia, Cassia, Kassiane, or Kassiani (, ; – c.865) was a Byzantine-Greek composer, hymnographer and poet. She holds a unique place in Byzantine music as the only known woman whose music appears in the Byzantine liturgy. Approximately fifty of her hymns are extant, most of which are stichera, though at least 26 have uncertain attribution. The authenticity issues are due to many hymns being anonymous, and others ascribed to different authors in different manuscripts. She was an abbess of a convent in the west of Constantinople.
Additionally, many epigrams and gnomic verses are attributed to her, at least 261. Kassia is notable as one of at least two women in the middle Byzantine period known to have written in their own names, the other being Anna Comnena. Like her predecessors Romanos the Melodist and Andrew of Crete, the earliest surviving manuscripts of her works are dated centuries after her lifetime.