Ιωάννης Φούλιας: Researching the early work of the composer Dimitri Mitropoulos: some historical and analytical remarks on his «Un morceau de concert» for violin and piano

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Ιωάννης Φούλιας, “Researching the early work of the composer Dimitri Mitropoulos: some historical and analytical remarks on his Un morceau de concert for violin and piano” [“Διερευνώντας το πρώιμο έργο του συνθέτη Δημήτρη Μητρόπουλου: ορισμένες ιστορικές και αναλυτικές παρατηρήσεις επί του έργου του Κομμάτι συναυλίας για βιολί και πιάνο”], Τελλόγλειο Ίδρυμα Τεχνών Α.Π.Θ., 9 Ιουνίου 2011.

Among the very early compositions that Dimitri Mitropoulos wrote at the beginning of 1910s, when he was still an adolescent student at the Athens Conservatory, there are few piano pieces and songs, but also his first chamber work, a Concert piece for violin and piano. What we definitely know about it comes in essence from the entries on the title page of its manuscript score, while other sources of rather unclear information have not been evaluated, nor utilized so far. Thus, the first aim of this paper is to expand our knowledge on the history of this neglected work, through a critical investigation of all relevant data and possible – not only literary but also musical – references. The second part of this study deals with the structural peculiarities of this piece, in order to elucidate the overall attitude of the aspiring composer towards the problem of musical form. Therefore, the present research aims, among other things, to enrich the field of Greek musicology with one of the first attempts to approach the early creative work of Mitropoulos from an analytical point of view.