Ioannis
Fulias, “Researching the
early work of the composer Dimitri Mitropoulos: some historical and analytical
remarks on his Un morceau de concert
for violin and piano”, in: Evi Nika-Sampson – Giorgos Sakallieros – Maria
Alexandru – Giorgos Kitsios – Emmanouil Giannopoulos (ed.), Crossroads:
Greece as an intercultural pole of musical thought and creativity (Conference
proceedings, Thessaloniki, 6-10 June 2011), School of Music Studies of the
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 2013 (http://crossroads.mus.auth.gr/proceedings),
p. 339-345.
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.
© Ioannis
Fulias