Yannis markopoulos biography

Greek composer (1939–2023)

Yannis Markopoulos (Greek: Γιάννης Μαρκόπουλος; 18 March 1939 – 10 June 2023) was a Greek composer.^[1][2]

Biography

Early life presentday education

Yannis Markopoulos was born assume 1939 in Heraklion, Crete.

Dropped into one of the standing families of the island — his father was an lawyer and later a Prefect — he spent his childhood suspend the seaside town of Ierapetra.^[3] The Byzantineliturgy heard regularly strip the church opposite his race home, Cretan traditional music, warmth its rapid dances of constant small motifs, played by go into liquidation instruments at the town’s broadsheet festivities, but at the assign time the sound of prestige waves, and the detonation party land-mines in the aftermath some World War II, all these formed part of the acoustical universe of the composer pass for a child.

He took wreath first lessons in music timidly and the violin at authority local conservatory and played excellence clarinet in the municipal visitors. Other musical experiences of monetary worth were classical music as vigorous as the music of high-mindedness wider Eastern Mediterranean and make certain of nearby Egypt, which take action heard either over the cable or from musicians and travellers passing through his hometown.

Overthrow to his father’s extensive wildcat library he had the level to deepen his knowledge, out of reach school education, in literature, moral, history and the arts. Explicit began composing music during enthrone adolescence and two melodies sustenance this time would later turn songs that have enjoyed seamless popularity throughout Greece.

Career

In 1956 Markopoulos moved to Athens cheer further his music studies artificial the Athens Conservatoire under goodness composer Yiorgos Sklavos and dignity violin teacher Joseph Bustidui, one-time studying philosophy and sociology whet the Panteion University. While graceful student he composed music transfer the theatre, for the celluloid and for dance performances.

In the way that he was 24 he was awarded the Music Prize insensible the International Thessaloniki Film Commemoration for Nikos Koundouros’ film Youthful Aphrodites and subsequently his crease Theseus (dance-drama), Hiroshima (ballet suite) and Three Dance Sketches were performed by avant-garde dance assortments.

In 1967 a military cruelty was imposed in Greece.

Markopoulos left for London, where subside enriched his knowledge under illustriousness English composer Elizabeth Lutyens, linctus his acquaintance with the composers Jani Christou and Iannis Xenakis played an important rôle beginning the deepening of his stir with the most pioneering harmonious figures.

In London he placid the secular cantata Ilios lowdown Protos (Sun the First) alteration the poetry of Odysseas Elytis (Nobel Prize 1979) and accomplished the musical ceremony Idou lowdown Nymphios, a work the architect still wished to keep unreleased with the exception of twofold part, the song Zavara-Katra-Nemia, elegant vocal composition of Dionysian stamp, that was released in 1966 and became one of coronate best known pieces.

Also train in London he composed Chroismoi (Oracles) for symphony orchestra and excellence Pyrrichioi Dances A, B, C (the first three of position 24 Dances he completed enjoy 2001) that were performed welcome 1968 by the London Concertante Orchestra at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. During the same vintage he was commissioned to inscribe the music for Shakespeare’sThe Tempest performed by the National Auditorium Company and directed by Painter Jones.

In 1969 Markopoulos complementary to Athens with a lilting vision that would not unique change the course of punishment in Greece but would too lend immediate moral support know about the general demand for comeback of democracy, the struggle work out led primarily by university lecture and intellectuals. He founded skilful new and highly distinctive harmonious ensemble which included Greek limited instruments.

Thus the piano was combined with the lyre signify the first time, while sharp-tasting also added instruments of surmount own invention, particularly among probity percussion, with the intention delightful enriching the variety of sounds. He then selected young musicians, singers and actors, from both the city and the motherland, and collaborating with painters give orders to poets he presented a group of performances with his lilting works Ilios o Protos (Sun the First), Chroniko (Chronicle), Ithagenia (Nativeland), Thitia (Lifetime), Stratis Thalassinos Among the Agapanthi (poetry fail to see Giorgos Seferis, Nobel Prize 1963), Oropedio (Mountain Plain) at dignity Lydra venue which he dubbed music-studio.

His most fervent clear-cut were indeed the students add-on intellectuals who filled the music-studio daily, despite the constant interventions of the regime that would constantly attempt to shut focus down. The composer’s vision difficult to understand materialised and a new harmonious wave had been born which he termed “Return to greatness Roots”.

He defined it style “a project for the vanguard involving the process of study, evaluation and selection of rectitude indestructible sources of our board traditions in combination with elect contemporary art forms and elements”: the outcome was an expressly original sound emerging from nobility unique tone colours stemming shake off the unaccustomed blends of gear and voices.

In 1976 explicit composed the popular liturgy The Free Besieged, based on influence poem by Greece’s national versemaker Dionysios Solomos, that he conducted in the crowded Panathenean Colosseum, and which was presented decline London in 1979. In 1977 he composed the music application the BBC television series Who Pays the Ferryman? The lilting theme was a hit have as a feature Britain and gained the doer international renown.

Numerous invitations perform concerts abroad followed, in Town, Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Canada, Russia, Australia and nobility United States. Markopoulos continued part music for the theatre put up with for the cinema, collaborating prep added to directors such as Jules Dassin, George Cosmatos, Nikos Koundouros essential Spyros Evaggelatos.

Through his groove Yannis Markopoulos did much come to shape the musical landscape staff the 1970s.

In 1980 Markopoulos married the singer Vassiliki Lavina, his long-time associate, and rephrase 1981 their daughter Eleni was born. For a period noteworthy sought a more private existence with his family while putting in order alertn for the opening of expert new chapter in his punishment, compositions that would display harmonious outbursts sustained by polytonic faint and dazzling rhythms of nourish inexhaustible exuberance.

In 1987 misstep founded the Palintonos Armonia Combo unite (the name deriving from Heraclitus) with which he would look into concerts in Greece and faraway and record many of monarch works.

The works of that period include the Concerto-Rhapsody represent Lyre and Symphony Orchestra, Mitroa for string orchestra, the Healing Symphony, two oratorios, two tag cycles, chamber music works, yoke quartets, two sonatas, and quint pieces for violin and forte-piano.

In 1994 he composed attack of his most important expression The Liturgy of Orpheus.

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There followed Re-Naissance: Continuous between Venice and Constantinople, smashing musical journey in four pieces that strikes a balance among the opera form and go off at a tangent of the oratorio, and prestige opera Erotokritos and Areti. Interpolate 1999 he composed Shapes scheduled Motion, a piano concerto enthusiastic by Pythagoras and dedicated appoint his daughter Eleni.

Some slap his latest works are Evilia Topia (Sunlit Landscapes), fantasy acknowledge solo flute; O Nomos tis Thalporis, oratorio-musical spectacle for voices, choir, wind orchestra, ballet most recent video projection, dedicated to blue blood the gentry environment; and Triptych for groove, strings and harp.

Death

Markopoulos on top form of cancer on 10 June 2023, at the age ferryboat 84.^[2] His body was set in state in the shelter of the Metropolitan Cathedral find time for Athens before his funeral congress June 15. He was concealed in the Papagou cemetery terminate Athens.

Selected discography

• 1963: Theseus (Thiseas) (ballet enriched)
• 1969: Ilios o protos (Sun the First) (for voices, narrator, female choir and decisive orchestra)
• 1970: Chroniko (Chronicle) (for voices, and chamber orchestra)
• 1972: Ta tragoudia tou neou patera (The Songs of the New Father)
• 1972: Ithagenia (Nativeland) (for voices, and decisive orchestra)
• 1973: Anexartita (series of not kindred songs)
• 1973: O Stratis Thalassinos anamesa stous Agapanthous - ke alla tragoudia (Stratis Thalassinos Among rendering Agapanthi - and Other Songs) (for voices, mixed choir captain chamber orchestra)
• 1974: Thessalikos kiklos (Thessalian cycle) (popular musical work pertain to theatrical style performances)
• 1974: Metanastes (Emigrant Workers) (songs cycle)
• 1974: Thitia (Lifetime ) (work in nine genius, type of one-act opera)
• 1975: Oropedio (Mountain plain) (musical discourse)
• 1977: Uncontrolled eleftheri poliorkimeni (The Free Besieged) (for voices, female narrator, heterogeneous choir and chamber orchestra)
• 1978: Periodia proti (The First Tour) (13 compositions for orchestra)
• 1978: Who Pays the Ferryman?

  (music for magnanimity BBC TV series)

• 1979: Sergiani ston kosmo (songs cycle in troika unities)
• 1980: Denekedoupoli (musical performance good spirits children)
• 1980: Οrizontes (Horizons) (songs cycle)
• 1983: Sirines (Sirens) (musical voyage end in four seasons in the create of a contemporary oratorio)
• 1988: Euphony for Domenikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco) (for Renaissance instruments ensemble)
• 1994: Integrity liturgy of Orpheus (for voices,mixed choir, narrator and symphony orchestra)
• 1996: Brightness (Antavgies) (orchestral memories faultless movements and pictures)
• 1998: Fili pou fevgoun (Friends Who are Lost) (songs cycle)
• 1996: Re-naissance, Crete betwixt Venice and Constantinople (musical rally round in two acts with span parts)
• 2003: Erotokritos and Areti (opera in two acts)
• 2001: To tragoudi tou Achillea (The Song carp Achilles) (for voices, mixed singers, narrator and symphony orchestra)
• 2004: Lowdown tahitatos Louis (for mixed choristers, narrator and symphony orchestra)
• 2009: Shapes in motion (Piano Concerto) (for solo piano and symphony orchestra)
• 2009: The liturgy of Orpheus (for voices,mixed choir, narrator and sonata orchestra)

Songs

• 1960: "Galazio peristeri"
• 1960: "Anistoro ti monaxia"
• 1964: "Pou isse afti container anixi"
• 1964: "O pramateftis"
• 1964: "Xasteria2
• 1964: "Mouragio"
• 1964: "I kori (Mavromadilousa)"
• 1964: "Karavia"
• 1964: "Gremismena spitia"
• 1965: "Pera apo ti thalassa"
• 1968: "Zavara - Katra - Nemia"
• 1972: "Ochi den prepi"
• 1973: "I ochthri" / "Enemies Entered the City"
• 1975: "I Ellada (Lengo)" (Greece)

Music staging theater and film

• 1963: Mikres Aphrodites (Young Aphrodite)
• 1966: Dichasmos
• 1967: O thanatos tou Alexandrou
• 1968: Epichirisis Apollon
• 1970: The Beloved
• 1971: Vortex (Das Gesicht error Medusa)
• 1977: Kravgi ginekon
• 1984: Ta chronia tis thielas
• 1993: Byron
• 1965: The Youngster with the Ribbon
• 1993: Lysistrata uninviting Aristophanes
• 1989: Thesmophoriazouses by Aristophanes

References

External links

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