A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Nænia

by George Grove

NÆNIA. A cantata for chorus and orchestra on Schiller's words 'Auch das Schöne muss sterben' by Hermann Goetz. It is op. 10 of his published works. Nænia or Nenia was a classical term for a funeral dirge. [App. p.727 "A setting of the same words for chorus and orchestra is op. 82 of the published works of Brahms."]

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