Ode to Death

Ode to Death, H. 144, Op. 38, is a musical composition for chorus and orchestra written by English composer Gustav Holst (1874–1934) in 1919. It is a setting of a passage from Walt Whitman's 1865 elegy When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, which was written to mourn the death of American president Abraham Lincoln.

After World War I, Gustav Holst turned to the last section of Whitman's elegy to mourn friends killed in the war in composing his Ode to Death. Holst saw Whitman "as a New World prophet of tolerance and internationalism as well as a new breed of mystic whose transcendentalism offered an antidote to encrusted Victorianism." Sullivan also says, "Holst invests Whitman's vision of 'lovely and soothing death' with luminous open chords that suggest a sense of infinite space....Holst is interested here in indeterminacy, a feeling of the infinite, not in predictability and closure."^[1]

In the Ode to Death, the quiet, resigned mood is seen by Matthews as an "abrupt volte-face" after the life-enhancing spirituality of the Hymn.^[2] Imogen Holst believed the Ode expressed Holst's private attitude to death.^[3] According to fellow composers Ralph Vaughan Williams and Ernest Walker it is considered by many to be Holst's most beautiful choral work.^[4]

References

^ Sullivan, Jack. New World Symphonies: How American Culture Changed European Music, 116–18ISBN 0300072317
^ Matthews, Colin. "Holst, Gustav". Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
^ Holst, Imogen (1980). Holst, Gustavus Theodore von in Sadie, Stanley (ed.):The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Volume 8. London: Macmillan., 663.
^ Dickinson, Alan Edgar Frederic; Alan Gibbs (ed). (1995). Holst's Music – A Guide. London: Thames, p. 36

External links

Ode to Death: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
Ode to Death at AllMusic

v t e Gustav Holst
List of compositions
Opera	Sāvitri The Perfect Fool At the Boar's Head The Wandering Scholar
Orchestral works	Beni Mora St Paul's Suite The Planets A Fugal Overture Egdon Heath Brook Green Suite
Concertante	A Fugal Concerto Double Concerto Lyric Movement
Concert/brass band	First Suite in E-flat for Military Band Second Suite in F for Military Band A Moorside Suite Hammersmith
Chamber music	Terzetto for flute, oboe and viola
Choral music	"This Have I Done for My True Love" The Hymn of Jesus Ode to Death "I Vow to Thee, My Country" "Thaxted" "O Spiritual Pilgrim" Choral Symphony A Choral Fantasia
Film score	The Bells
Named for Holst	Holst (crater) Holst Peak Holst Singers
Related articles	Imogen Holst Snape Maltings Theodor von Holst St Paul's Girls' School
Category

v t e Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass (1855–1892)	"Come Up from the Fields Father" (1865) "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" (1855) "Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day" (1865) "I Sing the Body Electric" (1855) "A Noiseless Patient Spider" (1891) "O Captain! My Captain!" (1865) "One Hour to Madness and Joy" (1860) "One's Self I Sing" (1867) "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" (1859) "Patrolling Barnegat" (1856) "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" (1865) "Prayer of Columbus" (1900) "The Sleepers" (1855) "Song of Myself" (1855) "Song of the Open Road" (1856) "This Dust Was Once the Man" (1871) "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" (1865) Sections Calamus Sea-Drift Drum-Taps
Other works	List of poems Franklin Evans (1842) Life and Adventures of Jack Engle (1852) Democratic Vistas (1871) Passage to India (1871)
Adaptations	Elegiac Ode (1884) Sea Drift (1906) A Sea Symphony (1909) Ode to Death (1919) Morning Heroes (1930) Sea Drift (1933) Dona nobis pacem (1936) Secular Cantata No. 2: A Free Song (1942) When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd (1946) The Wound-Dresser (1989) Lilacs (1996) Symphony No. 2 (1999) Dooryard Bloom (2004)
Life and honoraria	Walt Whitman Award Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln Lectures Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site Walt Whitman House The Long Islander Walt Whitman Bridge Walt Whitman (Davidson) Walt Whitman High School (Maryland) Walt Whitman High School (New York) Walt Whitman Shops Whitman-Walker Health

v t e Walt Whitman's "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"
Musical settings	Elegiac Ode (1884) Ode to Death (1919) When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd (1946) Lilacs (1996) Dooryard Bloom (2004)

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