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The Life and Twelve-Note Music of Nikos Skalkottas (Paperback)
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The Life and Twelve-Note Music of Nikos Skalkottas (Paperback)
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Nikos Skalkottas is perhaps the last great 'undiscovered' composer
of the twentieth century. In the 1920s he was a promising young
violinist and composer in Berlin, and a student of Schoenberg, who
included him among his most gifted pupils. It was only after his
return to Greece in 1933 that Skalkottas became an anonymous and
obscure figure, working in complete isolation until his death in
1949. Most of his works remained unpublished and unperformed during
his lifetime, and although he is largely known for his folkloristic
tonal pieces, Skalkottas in fact concentrated predominantly on
developing an idiosyncratic dodecaphonic musical language. Eva
Mantzourani provides here a comprehensive study of this fascinating
yet under-researched composer. The book, lavishly illustrated with
musical examples, is divided into three parts. Part I comprises a
critical biography that, by drawing extensively on his letters and
other writings, reappraises the image of Skalkottas with which we
are often presented. The main focus of the book, however, is on
Skalkottas's twelve-note compositional processes, since these
characterize the majority of his output, and are neither well-known
nor fully understood. Part II presents the structural and technical
features of his twelve-note technique, particularly the different
types of sets and their manipulation, and his approach to musical
forms. Part III consists of analytical case studies of several
works, presented chronologically, which thus provide a diachronic
framework within which Skalkottas's dodecaphonic compositional
development can be more effectively viewed. This book underlines
Nikos Skalkottas's importance as a composer with a distinctive
artistic personality, whose work contributed to the development of
twelve-note compositional practice, and who deserves a more
significant position within the Western art music canon than that
to which he is often assigned.
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