Elegiac Ode
Elegiac Ode, Op. 21, is a musical composition by British composer Charles [Villiers Stanford] written and first performed in 1884. It is a four-movement work scored for baritone and soprano soloists, chorus and orchestra, Stanford's composition is a setting of Walt Whitmans 1865 elegy, "When Lilacs Last in the [Dooryard Bloom'd]", mourning the death of American president Abraham Lincoln. According to musicologist Jack Sullivan, Stanford's Elegiac Ode likely had reached a wider audience during Whitman's lifetime than his poems.