Nikos Skalkottas - Violin Concerto (1/5) First Mov.

Nikos Skalkottas (Greek: Nίκος Σκαλκώτας) (21 March 1904 - 19 September 1949) was one of the most important Greek composers of 20th-century music. A member of the Second Viennese School, he drew his influences from both the classical repertoire and the Greek tradition.

Violin Concerto (1938)
1. Molto appassionato (beginning)

Georgios Demertzis, violin and the Malmö Symphony Orchestra conducted by Nikos Christodoulou

As a composer he worked alone, but wrote prolifically, mainly in his very personal post-Schoenbergian idiom that had little chance of being comprehended by the Greek musical establishment. He did secure some performances, especially of some of the Greek Dances and a few of his more tonal works, but the vast bulk of his music went unheard. During the German occupation of Greece he was placed in an internment camp for some months. In 1946 he married the pianist Maria Pangali; they had two sons. In 1949, at the age of 45 and shortly before the birth of his second son, he died of what appears to have been the rupture of a neglected common hernia, leaving some symphonic works with incomplete orchestration, and many completed works that were given posthumous premieres.

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