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The story of Pan and Syrinx is the inspiration for the first movement in Benjamin Britten's work for solo oboe, Six Metamorphoses after Ovid first performed in 1951. Britten titled the movement, "Pan: who played upon the reed pipe which was Syrinx, his beloved."
Pitys was chased by Pan—as was Syrinx, who was turned into reeds to escape the god who then used her reeds for his panpipes. The flute-notes may have frightened the maenads running from his woodland in a "panic."
Pan and Syrinx: To save her from the amorous Pan, Syrinx is transformed into a water reed (Metamorphoses 1.689ff). Salmacis and Hermaphroditus: As Hermaphroditus is embraced by the Naiad Salmacis, they are merged into one being (Metamorphoses 4.285ff). Cupid and Pan: Representing the Virgilian phrase Omnia vincit amor (love conquers all), Cupid ...
Pan cut the reeds to fashion the first set of pan pipes, which were thenceforth known as syrinx. [2] As the piece features Syrinx it obviously has major parts for woodwind solos. The music was written at the height of Nielsen's powers as a composer, shortly after he finished the Fourth Symphony. It is a vigorous, pretty, and poetic work. [3]
The story of Pan is the inspiration for the first movement in Benjamin Britten's work for solo oboe, Six Metamorphoses after Ovid first performed in 1951. Inspired by characters from Ovid's fifteen-volume work Metamorphoses, Britten titled the movement, "Pan: who played upon the reed pipe which was Syrinx, his beloved."
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pan and Syrinx. Michel Dorigny (1616 – 20 February 1665) was a French painter and engraver.
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The poem’s 4th stanza continues to identify the garden with a retreat from sexuality. It includes allusions to the myths of Apollo and Daphne and Pan and Syrinx from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, stories that both describe a nymph’s escape from threatened rape through transforming into a plant. The speaker claims that "Apollo hunted Daphne so ...