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Yared
Sign in to saveSaint Yared (Ge'ez: ቅዱስ ያሬድ; 25 April 505 – 20 May 571) was an Ethiopian Aksumite composer, hymnwriter and scholar. He was credited with inventing the traditional music of Ethiopia, he developed the music of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and Eritrean Orthodox Church. In a broader context, he helped establish liturgical music in the Coptic Orthodox Church and Syriac Orthodox Church, as well as create the Ethiopian musical notation system. Additionally, he composed Zema, or the chant tradition of Ethiopia, particularly the chants of the Ethiopian-Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Churches, which are st
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 0505-04-25
- Died
- 0571-05-20
- Works
- 8
Top works
- Coping with seasonality in Amhara households of Wogda, Central Ethiopia
- Destitution in the north-eastern highlands of Ethiopia
- Destitution in the North-Eastern Highlands of Ethiopia (Fss Studies on Poverty)
- Household resources, strategies and food security in Ethiopia
- Land redistribution and socio-economic change in Ethiopia
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- Listeners
- 1,267
- Total plays
- 4,422
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Key facts
- Saint.honorific_prefix
- Saint
- Saint.name
- Yared
- Saint.image
- Yared sings before Meskel.jpg
- Saint.titles
- Composer
- Saint.birth_place
- Axum, Kingdom of Aksum
- Saint.death_place
- Semien Mountains
- Saint.feast_day
- 19 May
- Saint.attributes
- Old man wearing traditional attire and holding walking stick (mequamia), tsenatsel in front of Deggua book and three chants: Ge'ez, Ezel and Araray depicted as doves
- Saint.venerated_in
- Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo ChurchEthiopian Catholic Church Eritrean Catholic Church
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Key dates
- Born
- 25 April 505
- Died
- 20 May 571
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Saint Yared (Ge'ez: ቅዱስ ያሬድ; 25 April 505 – 20 May 571) was an Ethiopian Aksumite composer, hymnwriter and scholar. He was credited with inventing the traditional music of Ethiopia, he developed the music of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and Eritrean Orthodox Church. In a broader context, he helped establish liturgical music in the Coptic Orthodox Church and Syriac Orthodox Church, as well as create the Ethiopian musical notation system. Additionally, he composed Zema, or the chant tradition of Ethiopia, particularly the chants of the Ethiopian-Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Churches, which are still performed today.
According to the medieval chronicle The Gadla Yared (Acts of Yared), Yared was born in Axum. After the death of his father, his activity in education gradually declined which led him to be sent to parish priest Abba Gedeon. Yared then went to his uncle birthplace in Murade Qal. He saw a worm trying to climb tree with numerous attempts until the last moment. The worm struggle had inspire him and pursue to read and study Holy Scriptures. He became a priest at Church of Our Lady, Mary of Zion, then attracted to the Aksum king Gebre Meskel. He developed musical notation, including Zema or Ethiopian chant as well as authoring the famous Book of Deggua.