According to Greek legend, Orpheus was a young man with such a prodigious skill in music that he moved the clouds in the sky and the rocks under the earth every time that he played. When his young wife, Eurydice, died suddenly, the heart-broken Orpheus travelled to the underworld to play his music for Hades, the god of the dead. Touched by Orpheus' moving music, a weeping Hades allowed him and Eurydice to be reunited.