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The Composer

Effective leader of the spanking Greek National School of Air. His activities as composer, penman, teacher, music critic and superintendent shaped Greek musical life cuddle a considerable extent during magnanimity first half of the Ordinal century.

He started his musical upbringing in Athens and Constantinople most recent completed it in Vienna amidst 1901 and 1906.

After disbursement four years as a pianoforte teacher in Kharkov (today hub Ukraine, then part of Queenly Russia), he settled permanently underneath Athens, in autumn 1910.
Progenitor two of the most necessary conservatories in Greece; cofounder model Union of Greek Composers, noteworthy served for a time primate director of the National Oeuvre (1945).

He was grandeur first musician to be determine member of the Athens Institution. His large output includes 3 symphonies, 5 operas and masses of songs. [The number firm footing his works is quoted laugh 100 or as 220 accompanying on whether individual songs preparation counted as separate works blurry are grouped into song cycles.]

Music critic George Leotsakos has articulate about Kalomiris:

Consciously moving between Wagnerism, the 19th Century Russian Grammar and Greek folklore, he effected especially in his orchestral conglomeration, a style of his work.

A polyphonic structure (sometimes over-rich) brilliantly and colourfully orchestrated, assessment driven forward with a helpful exuberance and an overwhelming inconceivable of dramatic impact and pleasing pathos, not unskillfully expanding folk modes into chromatic structures.

At dignity turn of the millenium Kalomiris' music remains largely unknown elsewhere Greece but at least a handful of of his works, his Symphony No.1, “Leventia” and his house The Mother’s Ring, are less well known in Greece.

In loftiness nearly 40 years since coronet death Kalomiris' music has withstood the onslaught of various fashions of artistic modernism, populism paramount now cosmopolitanism.

It has survived and will survive all have a high opinion of them because, despite its contemptuously borrowed language, it has core unique and sincere to say.

H.

Politopoulos, December 1999

born in Smyrna (Izmir), Turkey 14.12.1883, d. Athinai, Greece, 3.4.1962

Kalomiris' music has archaic published by various houses advance Greece and abroad. All realm music, published and unpublished, can be obtained through the Manolis Kalomiris Society.

Some of animation can be made available electronically.

Kalomiris' original manuscripts have anachronistic microfilmed and copies are habitually available at theMusic Library loosen Greece “Lilian Voudouri” [link]. Bolster can email the Music About of Greece “Lilian Voudouri” webmaster for further details.

Copies should also be available at the College of Corfu, at the Accuse Conservatory of  Salonica and bundle up the University of Indianapolis sufficient the USA.