Life and Twelve-Note Music of Nikos Skalkottas

Name: Life and Twelve-Note Music of Nikos Skalkottas
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Eva Mantzourani provides a comprehensive study of this fascinating yet under-researched composer. The book comprises a critical biography, an exploration of Skalkottas's twelve-note compositional processes and analytical case studies, providing a diachronic framework within which Skalkottas's dodecaphonic compositional development can be more effectively viewed. > 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 Most of his works remained unpublished and unperformed during his lifetime, and although he is largely known for his folkloristic tonal pieces, Skalkottas in fact concentrated predominantly on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 dodecaph.