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International Conference Program NOVEMBER 29 TO DECEMBER 1, 2019 Music Library of Greece of the Friends of Music Society at Megaron – the Athens Concert Hall Organised by the Music Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri” of the Friends of Music Society, Megaron—The Athens Concert Hall, Athens State Orchestra, Greek Composer’s Union, Foundation of Emilios Chourmouzios—Marika Papaioannou, and European University of Cyprus. With the support of the Ministry of Culture and Sports, General Directorate of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage, Directorate of Modern Cultural Heritage The conference is held under the auspices of the International Musicological Society (IMS) and the Hellenic Musicological Society It is with great pleasure and anticipa- compositional technique. This confer- tion that this conference is taking place ence will give a chance to musicolo- Organizing Committee: Foreword .................................... 3 in the context of “2019 - Skalkottas gists and musicians to present their Thanassis Apostolopoulos Year”. The conference is dedicated to research on Skalkottas and his environ- the life and works of Nikos Skalkottas ment. It is also happening Today, one Alexandros Charkiolakis Schedule .................................... 4 (1904-1949), one of the most important year after the Aimilios Chourmouzios- Titos Gouvelis Greek composers of the twentieth cen- Marika Papaioannou Foundation depos- tury, on the occasion of the 70th anni- ited the composer’s archive at the Music Petros Fragistas Abstracts .................................... 9 versary of his death and the deposition Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri” of Vera Kriezi of his Archive at the Music Library of The Friends of Music Society to keep Greece “Lilian Voudouri” of The Friends safe, document and make it available for Martin Krithara Biographies .............................. 39 of Music Society. research under ideal circumstances. Stephanie Merakos Nikos Skalkottas is a representative com- We are thankful to the co-organizers of Georgia Petroudi poser of European music creation of the “2019- Skalkottas Year”, the Athens Valia Vraka first half of the 20th century. His life Concert Hall, the Athens State Orchestra, and his work show the critical elements the Greek Composers’ Union, the of contemporary music. He is a pioneer, Foundation of Aimilios Chourmouzios- innovative, inspired, and participant Marika Papaioannou, and the European Program Committee: in the development of European music University of Cyprus for their support and of his time as well as the development for sharing the same vision about the Antonio Baldassarre of the history of Greek music composi- great composer. We also express our grat- Nikos Christodoulou tion, while being secluded in his own itude towards the most important musi- art. He believed in himself, no matter cological organization, the International Ludwig Holtmeier the response of the audiences, he con- Musicological Society, which immedi- Eva Mantzouranis sidered himself a European, but he also ately embraced our idea for a Skalkottas wanted to write many large scale works conference and offered their aus- Stephanie Merakos so that his country would have an impor- pices. Similar gratitude is extended to Evi Nika-Samson tant composer. One can wonder what its branch here in Greece, the Hellenic Nikos Maliaras kind of music would Skalkottas be writ- Musicological Society and to all the ing if he lived today. members of the Organizing and Program Tatiana Markovich The conference is organized Today Committees. Last but certainly not least Kostas Tsougras because, 70 years after his sudden we would like to thank the Ministry of Culture and Sports, General Directorate Panos Vlagopoulos death, we still have not revealed all the magnitude of his genius. Even though of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage, Petros Vouvaris he is one of the most researched and Directorate of Modern Culture Heritage Valia Vraka played Greek composers of the past for appreciating our efforts to highlight century, there is much more to accom- the work of such a universal composer Giorgos Zervos plish in order to discover his works and and for offering their generous support. 3 14:30- LUNCH BREAK FRIDAY, 29 NOVEMBER 16:00 MULTIPURPOSE ROOM LECTURE ROOM 16:00- Paper Session: Skalkottas and the Paper Session: 10:00- Registration 18:00 Second Viennese School The Works of Skalkottas (II) 10:30 Chair: Nina-Maria Wanek Chair: P. Vouvaris MULTIPURPOSE ROOM 16:00- Vasilis Mitropoulos Ioannis Tselikas 10:00- 16:30 Schönberg - Skalkottas: common Skalkottas’ concerto form in the late Opening - Greetings 10:30 orchestration elements in violin concerti 1930s – early 1940s 10:30- Themed Session: 16:30- Raphael Staubli Iryna Riabchun 12:30 The Nikos Skalkottas Archive at the Music Library of Greece 17:00 Arnold Schönberg versus Heinrich 15 Little Piano Variations for piano Chair: Antonio Baldassarre Schenker solo by Nikos Skalkottas: Composer’s individuality, schools, directions, epoch 10:30- Valia Vraka 11:00 Behind the documents: past, present and future of Nikos Skalkottas Archive 17:00- Michael Taylor Despoina Panagiotidou 17:30 “...seeing how it is done; whereas I have Topics in the music of Nikos Skalkottas 11:00- Penelope Papagiannopoulou always helped people to see: what it is!” 11:30 Music section of the Nikos Skalkottas Archive: sorting and filing of archive material [Schönberg letter to Kolisch, 1932] 11:30- George Boumpous 17:30- Ludwig Holtmeier 12:00 Digitizing the Nikos Skalkottas Archive 18:00 Skalkottas, Berlin and Schönberg΄s 12:00- Stephanie Merakos Second-Generation Students 12:30 If he ever had known: The first attempts towards the publication of Skalkottas’ works, 18:00- COFFEE BREAK as shown in documents of the archive 18:30 12:30- COFFEE BREAK MULTIPURPOSE ROOM LECTURE ROOM 13:00 18:30- Paper Session: The Greek Music Scene Paper Session: MULTIPURPOSE ROOM LECTURE ROOM 20:00 at the Time of Skalkottas The Works of Skalkottas (III) 13:00- Paper Session: Paper Session: Chair: Haris Xanthoudakis Chair: George Zervos 14:30 Issues of Aesthetics and Performance The Works of Skalkottas (I) 18:30- Kostas Chardas Vasiliki Zlatkou Chair: Georgia Petroudi Chair: Eva Mantzourani 19:00 Learning from the past: Nikos Skalkottas Nikos Skalkottas, Second Sonata for 13:00- Danae Kara Petros Vouvaris as paradigm in the emergent Greek violin and piano (1940): the dialogue of a 13:30 20th century Modernism and Skalkottas: Skalkottas at the movies musical modernism (1950-65) modern composer with traditional sonata from a performer’s viewpoint form through an atonal musical context 13:30- Antonia Vasileiadou Murathan Turhan 19:00- Magdalini Kalopana Nicos Christodoulou 14:00 Approaching terms Creation and Re- Aesthetical and theoretical profundity in 19:30 Skalkotas and Dragatakis: asynchronous Nikos Skalkottas, Suite for Orchestra Creation in Music. from the composer’s Skalkottas’ 36 Greek Dances and their lives? no 2: formal innovation, multiple-series and conductor’s view in regard to N. eminence through generations method, serial “modality” and “functional” Skalkotas’ works harmony, developing variation 14:00- Nikolaos Samaltanos Eirini Diamantouli 19:30- Christina Michael Penelope Papagiannopoulou 14:30 The experience in making the world Through the lens of Socialist Realism: 20:00 Greece’s Modernisms: Nikos Skalkottas, Diatonic elements in atonal environment. premier recording of the piano works by Skalkottas in the 1930s and 1940s. Manos Hadjidakis, and the Generation of The case of Nikos Skalkottas’s Concerto Skalkottas, seen from the interpreter’s the Thirties for piano, violin and orchestra view point 20.30 Athens State Orchestra Concert SATURDAY, 30 NOVEMBER MULTIPURPOSE ROOM 17.00- Themed Session: References in the Piano Works of Nikos Skalkottas: 18.00 from the Baroque Era up to the 20th century MULTIPURPOSE ROOM Chair: Costas Tsougras 09.30- Themed Session: Nikos Skalkottas and the Athens Conservatoire 17:00- Lorenda Ramou 11.30 Chair: Panos Vlagopoulos 17:30 References form greek traditional music, 19th century piano music and commercial 09:30- Stella Kourmpana jazz in Nikos Skalkottas’s piano works 10:00 Nikos Skalkottas’ archival collections and series at the Athens Conservatoire 17:30- Annini Tsiouti 10:00- Panagiotis Daskalopoulos 18:00 A double filter : Nikos Skalkottas’s 32 Piano Pieces and the Second Viennese School 10:30 Skalkottas and the Athens Conservatoire Orchestra 18:00- COFFEE BREAK 10:30- Katerina Tsioukra 18:30 11:00 Skalkottas’ Friends Society chronicle according to its extant documents 18:30- Round Table discussion: Performing Skalkottas 11:00- Haris Xanthoudakis 19:30 Danae Kara, Nicos Christodoulou, Angelica Cathariou 11:30 Dating Skalkottas’ composition studies in Berlin Coordination: Kostas Chardas 11:30- COFFEE BREAK 12:00 MULTIPURPOSE ROOM LECTURE ROOM 12.00- Paper Session: The Works Paper Session: 14.00 of Skalkottas (IV) The Life of Skalkottas Chair: Katy Romanou Chair: Assaf Shelleg 12:00- Eva Mantzourani Nancy Bargerstock 12:30 A new critical edition of Skalkottas’s Nikos Skalkottas: a genius born - wrong Violin Concerto place - wrong time 12:30- Costas Tsougras Nina-Maria Wanek 13:00 An analytical approach to Nikos Nikos Skalkottas: the early years (1914– Skalkottas’s Eight Variations on a Greek 1920) Folk Theme for piano trio 13:00- George Zervos Vana Papaioannou 13:30 Twelve-tone technique, modality and A Different kind of Bridge and the Water bitonality in the second movement of Dragon - A music fairy tale for narrator