Manolis Kalomiris: Greek Folk Dance (Ballos)

Born in Smyrna, he attended school in Constantinople and studied piano and composition in Vienna. After working for a few years as a piano teacher in Kharkov (then Russia and now Ukraine) he settled in Athens and worked with his great friend Raam Ravi. An admirer of Richard Wagner, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Kostis Palamas, and Nikos Kazantzakis, he set himself the life goal of establishing a Greek "national school" of music, based on the ideas of the Russian national composers, on western musical achievements and on modern Greek folk music, poetry and myth. He thus founded in 1919 the Hellenic Conservatory and in 1926 the National Conservatoire. He wrote three symphonies and five operas, one piano concerto and one violin concertino, other symphonic works, chamber music and numerous songs and piano works. He held various public posts and was elected member of the Academy of Athens. A passionate composer, he has a personal post romantic idiom characterised by his rich harmonies and orchestrations, complex counterpoint, his long eastern melodies and the frequent use of Greek folk rhythms. A preoccupation with love and death transcends all five of his music dramas.

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• Kalomoiris
• Kalomiris
• Greek
• Folk
• Dances
• Vienna
• Wagner
• Samos
• Smyrna
• Izmir
• Rimsky-Korsakoff
• Kostis
• Palamas
• National
• Conservatoire

[FondOfGreek]

Beautiful sceneries, landscapes, and the music... brings a lot of colours, but reminds me also of Persia, Arabia, sheiks on black horses, proud, majestic.

Magic.

[zeena61]

FANTASTIC!

[hallugi]

@GreekClassicalMusic makari file kai ego to elpizo

[GreekClassicalMusic]

@hallugi Θα συμφωνήσω και 'γω μαζί σου και ελπίζω πως αυτή η γνώμη στο μέλλον θα διαψευθεί.

[Ntreik96]

@hallugi Δυστυχώς, μάλλον έχεις ένα μεγάλο δίκιο... :(

[hallugi]

@Ntreik96 Giati imastan kai imaste pithikoi file mou.O skalkotas pethane stin psatha.O xenakis timithike kai anagnoristike apo tous galous edo kala kala mexri kai simera den ton kseroume.Ton xatzidaki ton kseroume alla an patisis sto search tou youtube xatz to rpoto pou vgazi ine xatzigiannis!!!!Gremisame to columbia to proto studio tis elladas.An den kano lathos kai ena ktirio tis finos films xoris na ime apolita sigouros gia to teleuteo.

[gavriel72]

συγκινητικες εικονες , συγκινητικη μουσικη. συγχαρητηρια.

το εβαλα στο μπλογκ μου, ενω ειμαι στο εξωτερικο -

τι ομορφο.

μπραβο.

[Ntreik96]

Mα γιατί οι έλληνες που έφτιαχναν κλασσική μουσική δεν είναι πια γνωστοί; Γιατί τα έργα τους ξεχάστηκαν; Γιατί δεν εκδίδουν ένα CD με όλους αυτούς τους μεγάλους μουσικούς (έστω και σε εφημερίδα); ΓΙΑΤΙ; ΑΦΟΥ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΤΟΣΟ ΟΜΟΡΦΑ ΚΟΜΜΑΤΙΑ!!!!!

[ghkypreos1]

Έξοχη ανάπτυξη του ρυθμού με πανέξυπνη ενορχήστρωση. Τέλειο!

[688james]

Manolis Kalomiris (1883–1962)), was a Greek classical composer. He was the founder of the Greek National School of Music. He is the best Greek composer (however Nikos Skalkottas is also good) and we can compare him with the rest classic music composers.

[deZibeL8]

GREECE - my country!