Kassia (also Kassiane, Kassiani, Casia; 810 - bef.867) was a Greek-Byzantine poet, composer, and hymnographer. She is one of the first ancient composers whose scores are both extant and able to be interpreted by modern scholars and musicians. Approximately fifty of her pieces are extant. Events October 1 - A man with a sword makes an attempt on emperor Nicephorus Is life. ... Events September - Basil I becomes sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire. ... What Up. ... A poet is some one who writes poetry. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ...

She was born in 810 in Constantinople into an aristocratic family. About 843 she founded a convent and became its first abbess. One of her pieces was so well known in her time that it was in the Chronicles of medieval Byzantium. Events October 1 - A man with a sword makes an attempt on emperor Nicephorus Is life. ... Map of Constantinople. ... Events Treaty of Verdun divides the Carolingian empire between the 3 sons of Louis the Pious. ... This article is about an abbey as a religious building. ... An Abbess (Latin abbatissa, fem. ...

Kassia is also the Polish form of the name Katherine. It means "pure".

See also

Byzantine music Byzantine music is the music of the Byzantine Empire and by extension the music of its culture(s) as they continued in the Orthodox Christian parts of the population after the fall of the empire to the rule of the Ottoman Empire. ...

References

Diane Touliatos. "Kassia", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed February 12, 2006), grovemusic.com (subscription access). The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians, considered by most scholars to be the best general reference source on the subject in the English language. ... February 12 is the 43rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...