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	Nikolaos Skalkottas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nikos Skalkottas (Greek: Nίκος Σκαλκώτας (born 1901 in Chalcis, died 1949 in Athens) was a Greek composer of 20th-century music.
		Besides his musical work, Skalkottas compiled an important theoretical work, consisting of several "musical articles", a treatise on orchestration, musical analyses etc. Skalkottas soon shaped his personal features of musical writing so that any influence of his teachers was soon assimilated creatively in a manner of composition that is absolutely personal and recognizable.
		Skalkottas was able to draw diverse and in some ways conflicting threads together and not to compromise, rather to enhance, his own originality, range and power of expression.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nikos_Skalkottas (625 words)

	Nikos Skalkottas
		Nikos Skalkottas was born on March 8, 1904 in Halkis (island of Eubea, Greece).
		His great- grandfather, Alexander Skalkottas, from Pyrgos (island of Tinos) was a renowned folk singer, violinist and composer; his father, Alexander Skalkottas, was a flutist.
		In Greece, unfortunately, Skalkottas met with a lot of incomprehension and enmity, and was obliged to accept a position as one of the last violins in the State Orchestra of Athens.
	www.antibaro.gr /culture/mg/skalkottas.html (525 words)

	Untitled Document
		For Skalkottas, originality was a sign of quality; in 'Originality and Imitation' [Prototypia kai Apomimisis] he hailed the originality of modern music and urged composers to strive for new forms and styles, though without severing their links with tradition.
		In his article on thematic development, Skalkottas also explained how the theme may be developed through varied repetition, the use of variants [metallages] in episodes, and he related the manner of thematic development to its 'character' or 'style' [yphos], as well as the overall form.
		Keller recognized Skalkottas as one of the few 'masters', a rare example of a modern composer who retained continuity with tradition, and his repeated epithets for the composer were, invariably, 'genius', or rather 'symphonic genius', and 'master of symphonic thought'.
	www.bpmonline.org.uk /bpm4-skalkottas.html (3116 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		Nikos Skalkottas was a genius, and like so many geniuses he died young (45) and unacknowledged.
		Occasional very minor ensemble lapses in the strings and a smeared passage now and again in the brass (the writing for trombones is somewhat impractical) count for nothing amid the confident projection of the music's rhythmic vitality and timbral ingenuity.
		It should be remembered that Skalkottas heard virtually none of this music, and so lacked the useful experience gained by trying it out in performance (though the fact the he orchestrates so well is a tribute to his genius and to his years of practical musicianship as a violinist in the Athens Symphony Orchestra).
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=6299 (631 words)

	Houston Sinfonietta Greek Concert February 9 2003
		Nikos Skalkottas is an important Greek composer of the 20th century.
		Skalkottas was born in Halkis, but his family moved to Athens, so Skalkottas could study violin at the Athens Conservatory.
		Skalkottas has been deeply influenced by Greek folk music, even though much of his output is not instantly recognizable as "folksy" in character.
	www.houstonsinfonietta.org /content/notes_200302.htm (1699 words)

	Program Notes, Nikos Skalkottas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		NIKOS SKALKOTTAS (1904-49) was born in Halkis, but spent most of his childhood in Athens.
		In 1921, Skalkottas moved to Berlin to study further, but soon turned his attention to composing.
		His music was either neglected or heavily criticized on account of its atonality and technical demands, but he continued composing prolifically until he died unexpectedly at the young age of 45.
	www.astoriamusic.org /Archives/programnotes/Skalkottas-5greekdances.htm (355 words)

	Musical Times: Nikos Skalkottas: sets and styles in the Octet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		MARCH 2004 marked the centenary of the birth of the Greek composer Nikos Skalkottas (1904-49), perhaps the last great undiscovered composer of the ioth century.
		Contrary to the widely held view that in Skalkottas's i2-note works 'prime and retrograde forms are used freely, but transpositions appear rarely and inversions almost never',4 a careful study of his music reveals that sets are largely presented in their prime form (Po).
		However, Skalkottas does employ transpositions both for their local (for the purposes of developing variation) and their large-scale (as a means of formal construction) consequences.
	www.looksmarttrends.com /p/articles/mi_qa3870/is_200410/ai_n9463307 (1203 words)

	CCi- Music Source (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Nikos Skalkottas (1904-1949) composed more than 170 works during his 25 year career, but his music was almost totally unknown during his own lifetime.
		Born in Greece to a family of musicians, Skalkottas was a child prodigy and eventually left his homeland to study in Berlin, where his major composition teachers were Phillipp Jarnach (1925-27) and Arnold Schoenberg (1927-31).
		As the horrors of Nazisim arose in Germany, Skalkottas chose to return to his homeland.
	www.composerscollab.org /music_source/shalkottas-nikos.html (167 words)

	Musical Pointers
		Skalkottas was celebrated as a significant composer in Harry Halbreich's very personal musical Salon des Refusés, a festival in Portugal which focused upon the resurrection of some undeservedly neglected composers of the recent past.
		A great deal of music, often fast and breathless, may be concentrated into a few minutes, as with several of the works given here.The unique concerto for two violins and piano duet (one piano) makes this an imperative must-buy release.
		Skalkottas died from a ruptured appendix in 1949, unknown, unpublished, unrecorded and unplayed, before he had orchestrated this double concerto.
	www.musicalpointers.co.uk /reviews/cddvd/Skal2vlnConc_etc.htm (594 words)

	Bard College Press Releases - Full Story
		Nikos Skalkottas is considered one of the most gifted students of Arnold Schoenberg, with whom he studied in Berlin from 1921—1933.
		Violinist Eva Lindal, granddaughter of Nikos Skalkottas, studied at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm, with Aida Stucki in Switzerland, and in Canada at the Banff Arts Center with Hungarian violinist Lorand Fenyves.
		She was a member of the Festival Strings of Lucerne, a chamber orchestra directed by Rudolf Baumgartner; the Swedish Radio Orchestra, under the direction of Esa-Pekka Salonen; and the Swedish band Katzen Kappell.
	inside.bard.edu /tools/pr/fstory.php?id=699 (945 words)

	Program Notes, Nikos Skalkottas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Later, Skalkottas added a bass part and the inscription “auch für Streichorchester” (“also for string orchestra”).
		The pieces are sometimes delightfully humorous, sometimes sentimental and nostalgic, and at other times dark and brooding—like the composer.
		Ten Sketches combines popular contemporary and pre-classical Greek materials with Skalkottas’ own figurative elements to create world of sound that is truly his own.
	www.astoriamusic.org /Archives/programnotes/Skalkottas-10sketches.htm (319 words)

	Nikos Skalkottas -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Skalkottas began violin studies at the age of five, continuing them later at the Athens conservatory and in Berlin, where he also studied composition.
		Influenced by Schoenberg, with whom he studied (1927–31), he began using the 12-tone method in his compositions but adhered to traditional forms.
		The prolific and diverse output of the writer Nikos Kazantzakis represents a major contribution to modern Greek literature.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9068066 (363 words)

	Medialunchbox - Music : Nikos Skalkottas: 32 Piano Pieces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The immensely prolific Greek composer Nikos Skalkottas (1909-1949) was the favorite student of Arnold Schoenberg, who considered him his most gifted student after Berg and Webern.
		The Thirty-Two Piano Pieces of Greek composer Nikos Skalkottas (1904-1949) are brave, eccentric, unique and gritty works of metaphysical profundity.
		Cast in his own very personal musical idiom, Skalkottas' compositions bend the parameters of harmony and discord as well as the parameters of emotional expression.
	www.medialunchbox.com /B000255LUW/Nikos_Skalkottas_32_Piano_Pieces.html (181 words)

	ArkivMusic \| Skalkottas: Music For Violin And Piano / Demertzis, Et Al
		Nikos Skalkottas produced his abundant compositional legacy in virtual obscurity.
		Much of Skalkottas' prolific output only exists in manuscript; tracking it all down amounts to a detective job from hell.
		Much of Skalkottas' music, in fact, evokes the lilting, cosmopolitan sound world of the composers who made up "Les Six", yet the grammar is thoroughly rooted in Schoenberg's gritty, uncompromising 12-tone lexicon.
	www.arkivmusic.com /classical/album.jsp?site_id=CTRV&album_id=25946 (383 words)

	Nikos SKALKOTTAS String Quartets nos. 3 & 4. : Classical CD Reviews-June 2000 Music on the Web(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		In Nikos Skalkottas' massive fourth string quartet (1940), this CD has some of the most dense and eventful music you are ever likely to encounter.
		The September 1999 recording of the two quartets made in Athens is entirely satisfactory and the background information includes a detailed analysis of Skalkottas's music for string quartet, as well as notes about his strange life and an introduction to his unique style.
		SKALKOTTAS The Maiden and Death; Piano Concerto No 1 (Geoffrey Douglas Madge) and Ouverture Concertante Iceland Symphony Orchestra, cond.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2000/july00/skalkottas.htm (720 words)

	Nikos SKALKOTTAS (1904-49)Thirty-Two pieces for piano [PGW]: Classical Reviews- July 2001 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		They are not too hard, nor are some of the Thirty-Two Pieces, but others of those require transcendental pianism and should be taken up by our Rolf Hinds and Ian Paces and their virtuosic colleagues.
		The texts have been specially reworked and edited, and there are detailed liner notes, which also summarise the composer's isolated and tragic life, dying unknown in 1949, unpublished, unrecorded and unplayed.
		I found little interest in Skalkottas in conversation during a recent visit to Greece for a music festival.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2001/July01/Skalkottas.htm (444 words)

	Nikos Skalkottas (biography English version) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		And Halbreich adds later: 'His œuvre is warm, lyrical and sombre like Alban Berg's, sometimes as tenuous and re.ned as that of Webern, and as rhythmical as Stravinsky or Bartók.
		Nikos Skalkottas was born at Halkis on the
		At this time Skalkottas would have had access to all the leading international aspects of music and the arts.
	www.skfe.com /biog_en_skalkottas_sirodeau.html (1528 words)

	Backstage Pass: Violinist Georgios Demertzis and Pianist Maria Asteriadou Champion the Work of Composer Nikos Skalkottas
		That childhood introduction to the twentieth-century Greek composer became a lifelong fascination for Demertzis, violinist and associate professor of violin at Lawrence University.
		"We believe that Skalkottas is one of the most important and overlooked composers of the twentieth century," she says.
		The first two critically-acclaimed recordings are entitled Nikos Skalkottas Music for Violin and Piano (with Asteriadou on piano); and Nikos Skalkottas Violin Concerto, Largo Sinfonico, 7 Greek Dances (with the Malmö Symphony, Nikos Christodoulou conducting).
	www.oberlin.edu /con/bkstage/200002/skalkottas.html (910 words)

	TrekEarth \| A little tribute to Nikos Skalkotas Photo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Nikos Skalkotas was one of the most important classical music composers of Greece.
		He was born in 1904 in Chalkis and died in 1949 in Athens.
		Nikos Skalkottas was born in Halkis in 1904 and died in Athens in 1949.
	www.trekearth.com /gallery/Europe/Greece/photo116977.htm (467 words)

	Classical Net Review - Skalkottas - Chamber Works
		This major work has remained unorchestrated by anyone else, but is all the better for that; the richly coloured violin parts and ideas bubbling out with such prolixity make thought of any limitations soon forgotten.
		It is enormously invigorating and hear-lifting music, by a composer who brought Mediterranean warmth into rigorous and complex serial procedures he was discovering and elaborating until his untimely death.
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	www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/b/bis01464a.html (564 words)

	UI symphony band and organist Disselhorst will give concert Nov. 5
		Little known during his lifetime, the Greek composer Skalkottas has been called "a volcanic talent" and "a Mozart of our time." After studies at the Athens Conservatory, he journeyed to Berlin in 1921 for further study in violin and composition.
		Finding the climate hostile to contemporary music, Skalkottas composed mostly in isolation, and most of his music was unknown until it was discovered after his death.
		These arrangements were never performed in Skalkottas' lifetime and have only recently been published.
	www.uiowa.edu /~ournews/1997/october/1024dissel.html (947 words)

	Department of Music Canterbury Christ Church University College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		A scholarship from the Academy of Athens enabled her to pursue postgraduate music studies at the University of London.
		The music of Nikos Skalkottas remains an important aspect of her research, and a monograph focussing on his twelve-note works is currently planned.
		Her forthcoming book entitled, Nikos Skalkottas: A Study of his Life and Twelve-Note Compositional Technique, will be published by Ashgate in 2006.
	arts-humanities.cant.ac.uk /Music/staff/mantzourani-evangelia.htm (543 words)

	MTO 5.2: Dissertation Listings
		Most of it is unpublished and unperformed, and I propose to assess it with the assistance of supporting analytical methods, addressing the primary sources.
		Problems to be examined include those surrounding the validity of the texts of the composer currently available and the general appraisal of these in the context of the output of Skalkottas, and his contribution to twentieth-century compositional technique, especially in relation to the structural ideals of his teacher, Schoenberg.
		Significantly, Skalkottas' idiosyncratic use of serial and developmental techniques is of great interest, particularly viewed in conjunction with the elaborate aesthetic, as opposed to purely technical, concepts with which the majority of Skalkottas' writing is concerned.
	www.societymusictheory.org:16080 /mto/issues/mto.99.5.2/dis.5.2.html (1440 words)

	Musical Pointers
		BIS has done a tremendous service to several chosen contemporary composers and we are indebted to them for some marvellous recent releases of music by Nikos Skalkottas, difficult to perform and interpret, long after he died in 1949, having heard little of it performed.
		The BIS project has been entrusted chiefly to musicologist/conductor Nikos Christodoulou, who recorded the first piano concerto with Geoffrey Douglas Madge in Iceland and provides the extensive scholarly analyses of the music and the editions used.
		One critic, in ClassicsToday, fairly points out that the three movements sound not as contrasted in the event as the liner notes indicate they ought to be.
	www.musicalpointers.co.uk /reviews/cddvd/Skalkottas3.htm (516 words)

	Nikos Skalkottas - Samuil Feinberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		All lovers of Skalkottas or Feinberg' music are welcome in our Association.
		Le livre du Cycle Skalkottas est paru en 1999.
		Cette publication sur Skalkottas et Feinberg est une première en langue occidentale.
	skfe.com (202 words)

	MDT - BISSACD1484, BIS SACD
		SKALKOTTAS Concerto No.2 for Piano and Orchestra; Tema con variazioni; Little Suite for Strings; Four Images.
		Geoffrey Douglas Madge, BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Nikos Christodoulou.
		Following on from his successful rendition of the epic Piano Concerto No.3, Douglas Madge undertakes the demanding solo part alongside the BBC Symphony Orchestra and revered Skalkottas interpreter, Christodoulou.
	www.mdt.co.uk /MDTSite/product/BISSACD1484.htm (93 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Nikolaos Skalkottas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		This is an extract from The Middle East Open Encyclopedia, made possible through the Wikimedia Foundation.
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	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=Nikolaos_Skalkottas (757 words)

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	ALLEGRO MUSIC - Order Page
		The immensely prolific Greek composer Nikos Skalkottas (1909- 1949) was the favorite student of Arnold Schoenberg, who considered him his most gifted pupil after Berg and Webern.
		A rare opportunity to hear music of this master who was quite totally ignored and/or rejected (like our own Charles Ives) in his own lifetime.
		Program notes by Gunther Schuller and the late Skalkottas scholar and archivist Johannis Pappaioanou.
	www.allegro-music.com /online_catalog.asp?sku_tag=GMR32074 (116 words)

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