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PRESENTATIONS_52: Greek resources and cataloguing
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2:00pm - 2:30pm
Manuscripts by Greek Composers in The Oliver Neighbour collection at the British Library, MS Mus. 1810
British Library, United Kingdom This paper will present three autograph manuscripts by Greek composers in the Oliver Neighbour collection at the British Library (BL): the Concertino for Two Pianos and Orchestra (1935) and Little Suite for Strings (1942) by Nikos Skalkottas (1904–1949), and the song Mín klaís [Don’t Cry] (1911) by Manolis Kalomiris (1883–1962). The collection is named after its former owner, the musicologist and music librarian Oliver Neighbour (1923–2015). It includes over 200 autograph manuscripts by composers who are either not represented elsewhere in the BL’s collections or complement existing collections. The manuscripts by Skalkottas and Kalomiris are good examples of the former, while the Skalkottas ones also reflect Neighbour’s personal interest in the music of Arnold Schoenberg and his circle. The paper will discuss aspects of the manuscripts’ transmission history and provide a brief introduction to the historical and socio-political context in which the works were created. It will examine Skalkottas’s atonal and dodecaphonic compositions in terms of the composer’s efforts to make atonal music more accessible in Greece. It will also discuss Kalomiris’s setting of a poem by the eminent Greek poet Kostis Palamas from his collection Oi pentasýllavi [The Pentasyllables] (1910). The song will be situated within the framework of Kalomiris’s ‘manifesto’ for Greek national music and his staunch Demoticist stance in the controversial language reform debates of the 19th and 20th centuries. The manuscripts will be presented within the wider context of Greek music collections at the BL, acquired through legal deposit, purchase, and e-resource subscriptions. 2:30pm - 3:00pm
The Arfanis Archive-Collection at Athens Conservatoire La Collection- Archive de Stathis Arfanis / Die Sammlung & Archiv von Stathis Arfanis Athens Conservatoire, Greece Abstract • The Arfanis Archive-Collection. • In this paper the Arfanis Archive-Collection. • Its creator Stathis Arfanis is a passionate music researcher and collector and had really saved from extintion important pieces of music like the ouverture of the opera “Kyra Frosini” by Pavlos Karrer • The Arfanis archive-collection is the largest private music collection in Greece. • It contains very rare precious documents,photographs,sheet music,recorded music and opera singers’ memorabilia . • All those items are very impprtant historical and documentation sources about the 19th century art music history in Greece. • The Arfanis Archive-Collection is already donated to the Athens Conservatoire; mainly because the music included is linked in various ways to the Athens Conservatoire; the latter had a significant place in the musical and social life of the 19th century Athens and Greece. • Nowdays, the Conservatoire ‘s goal is the presentation and the protection. • It plans via the creation of both a physical and a digital museum. • It is a very rare, very important collection and its protection and presentation to the audience will be an invaluable token for all of us. • Maria Glynou • 8.12.2025 French/German Abstract Cette présentation concerne la collection- Archive de Stathis Arfanis. C’est une collection tres rare et tres importante est sa protection et préservation sera invaluable pour le Diese Präsantation ist über die Sammlung & Archiv von Stathis Arfanis. | ||