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Eight Children's Miniatures

for Piano

Οκτώ Παιδικές Μινιατούρες για πιάνο έργο 23

Catalogue No.: YSC61

Status: Completed

Opus: 23

Genre: Solo

Creative Timeline: Second Period

Dedication:

"To my son Linos"

Number of Movements: 8

Movement Titles:

Prelude
March
Whistles
Little song out of tune
“Counia-Bella” or riding the little wooden horse
The wolf and the little Red Riding Hood
Mr. Tinky, or the dwarf who, every night, watches whether children go in time to bed
Lullaby

Instrumentation:

Piano

Written in: Athens

Date: November 23, 1963

Duration: 00:11:13

Sicilianos Archive Files

#	Archive Title	Description	Number of Pages	Digital Format	Linked File
1	Draft Score	Scan of the draft score.	13	PDF	View or Download
2	Published Full Score	Scan of the full score, published by the Greek Ministry of Education.	16	PDF	View or Download
3	Composer's Note	Scan of the composer's note.	1	PDF	View or Download

Intertextuality

#	Title	Creator	Type	Remarks	Work Page
1	Frère Jacques		Nursery Rhyme	4. Little song out of tune	View
2	Little Red Riding Hood		Fairy Tale	6. The wolf and the little Red Riding Hood	View
3	Swift Little Evzon	Theofrastos Sakellaridis	Music		View

Discography

#	Title	Artist(s)	Work(s) by Sicilianos	Format	Label	Release Date	Album Page
1	Yorgo Sicilianos	Argyris Kounadis, Instrumental Ensemble of the 2nd Hellenic Week of Contemporary Music, Maria Chairogiorgou-Sigara, Popi Eustratiadi	Eight Children's Miniatures Op. 23, Episodes Variations and Interludes for Chamber Orchestra Op. 27, Tanagraea Suite for two Pianos Op. 17c	LP - Vinyl	Lyra	1971	View
2	Works for Piano by Greek Composers - Second Series - Works Dedicated to Children	Effie Agrafioti	Eight Children's Miniatures Op. 23	LP - Vinyl	Motivo	1981	View
3	Works for One and Two Pianos	Alexandra Papastefanou, Elisabeth Kounalaki	Contrastes for Two Pianos on a Chromatique Theme by Orlande de Lassus Op. 48, Eight Children's Miniatures Op. 23, Etudes Compositionnelles Op. 32, Tanagraea Suite for two Pianos Op. 17c	Compact Disc	Lyra	1995	View
4	Yorgos Sicilianos Piano Music 1957-1984	Daniël Kramer, Ermis Theodorakis	Contrastes for Two Pianos on a Chromatique Theme by Orlande de Lassus Op. 48, Eight Children's Miniatures Op. 23, Etudes Compositionnelles Op. 32, Tanagraea Suite for two Pianos Op. 17c	Compact Disc	Hellenic Society For Aesthetics	2007	View
5	Charis Dimaras - Piano Music by Dimitri Mitropoulos and Yorgo Sicilianos	Charis Dimaras	Eight Children's Miniatures Op. 23	Compact Disc	Irida Classical	2010	View
6	Yorgos Sicilianos: The Lady in the Moonlight & Eight Children's Miniatures for Piano	Athena Fytika, Giannis Sambrovalakis, Iris Louka, Korina Vougiouka, Nikos Tsouchlos, Roza Poulimenou (Cappon)	Eight Children's Miniatures Op. 23, The Lady in the Moonlight Op. 41	Compact Disc	Edition Orpheus	2024	View

Texts

#	Cover	Title	Type	Authorship Year	Language	Remarks	Text Page
1		Interview with Michel Fais	Interview	1992	Greek		View
2		A Conversation with Kornilios Diamantopoulos and Konstantinos Lygnos	Interview	2004	Greek		View

Performances

#	Date	Venue	City	Country	Festival	Organiser	Artist(s)	Ensemble(s)	Work(s) Performed
1	April 16, 1965	Theatre of the Society for Macedonian Studies	Thessaloniki	Greece	N/A	"Art" Macedonian Artistic Society	Popi Eustratiadi (piano)	N/A	Eight Children's Miniatures, Op. 23
2	March 22, 1966	House of Fine Arts and Letters	Athens	Greece	N/A	N/A	Aliki Vatikioti (piano)	N/A	Eight Children's Miniatures, Op. 23
3	March 31, 1966	Basilica of St. Mark	Heraklion	Greece	N/A	N/A	Aliki Vatikioti (piano)	N/A	Eight Children's Miniatures, Op. 23
4	May 2, 1966	Konzertsaal der C. D. G.	Munich	Germany	N/A	Verein Griechischer Akademiker	Aliki Vatikioti (piano)	N/A	Eight Children's Miniatures, Op. 23
5	January 11, 1967	Athens Technological Institute (ATI)	Athens	Greece	N/A	N/A	Popi Eustratiadi (piano)	N/A	Eight Children's Miniatures, Op. 23
6	November 30, 1967	Hoover High School	Glendale, California	United States of America	N/A	Community Concerts	Marilyn Neely (piano)	N/A	Eight Children's Miniatures, Op. 23
7	February 23, 1968	Hellenic American Union	Athens	Greece	N/A	N/A	Miranda Stronghili (piano)	N/A	Eight Children's Miniatures, Op. 23
8	February 14, 1969	San Bernardino Valley College	San Bernardino, California	United States of America	N/A	N/A	Marilyn Neely (piano)	N/A	Eight Children's Miniatures, Op. 23
9	May 8, 1969		Paris	France	N/A	N/A	Miranda Stronghili (piano)	N/A	Eight Children's Miniatures, Op. 23
10	January 11, 1971	Hughes Hall Auditorium, Ohio State University	Columbus, Ohio	United States of America	Faculty Recital Series	N/A	Marilyn Neely (piano)	N/A	Eight Children's Miniatures, Op. 23
11	February 27, 1974	Parnassos Literary Society Hall	Athens	Greece	N/A	Greek-French Association	Anna Tsitsa-Kounio (piano)	N/A	Eight Children's Miniatures, Op. 23
12	February 14, 1975	Italian Institute	Athens	Greece	N/A	N/A	Miranda Stronghili (piano)	N/A	Eight Children's Miniatures, Op. 23
13	March 21, 1979	Parnassos Literary Society Hall	Athens	Greece	N/A	Greek-French Association	Maria Chairogiorgou-Sigara (piano)	N/A	Eight Children's Miniatures, Op. 23
14	April 4, 1979	Patras Philharmonic Society	Patras	Greece	N/A	N/A	Maria Chairogiorgou-Sigara (piano)	N/A	Eight Children's Miniatures, Op. 23
15	April 5, 1979	Pyrgos Conservatory	Pyrgos	Greece	N/A	Orpheus Music Club	Maria Chairogiorgou-Sigara (piano)	N/A	Eight Children's Miniatures, Op. 23
16	May 30, 1980	National Gallery of Greece	Athens	Greece	Contemporary Music Series	ERT - Third Program - Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation	Effie Agrafioti (piano)	N/A	Eight Children's Miniatures, Op. 23
17	April 6, 1993	French Institute	Athens	Greece	N/A	French Institute, Greek Composers' Union	Maria Neophytidou (piano)[Op. 23], Nikos Tsouchlos (conductor)[Op. 41, Op. 44], Maria Marketou-Voudouri (mezzo-soprano)[Op. 41], Thanos Mikroutsikos (narrator) [Op. 41], Spyros Mourikis (clarinet) [Op. 41, Op. 44], Paris Anastasiadis (viola) [Op. 41], Evangelos Boudounis (guitar) [Op. 41, Op. 44], Irini Karaianni (soprano)[Op. 44], Evangelia Neoudaki (piccolo) [Op. 44], Ilias Barmpas (alto flute) [Op. 44], Vangelis Christopoulos (oboe) [Op. 44], Ioannis Papagiannis (cor anglais) [Op. 44], Christos Gkinos (bass clarinet) [Op. 44], Haris Hatzigeorgiou (violin) [Op. 44], Dana Hatzigeorgiou (cello) [Op. 44], Maria Bildea (harp) [Op. 44], Vivi Geka (mandolin) [Op. 44]	N/A	Eight Children's Miniatures, Op. 23 - The Lady in the Moonlight, Op. 41 - Mellichomeide, Op. 44
18	May 23, 2002	Parnassos Literary Society Hall	Athens	Greece	N/A	N/A	Ermis Theodorakis (piano)[Op. 17c, Op. 23, Op. 32, Op. 48], Emmanouil "Manolis" Perysinakis (piano)[Op. 17c, Op. 48]	N/A	Tanagraea, Op. 17c - Eight Children's Miniatures, Op. 23 - Etudes Compositionnelles, Op. 32 - Contrastes, Op. 48
19	November 24, 2004	Dimitri Mitropoulos Hall	Athens	Greece	N/A	N/A	Charis Dimaras (piano)	N/A	Eight Children's Miniatures, Op. 23
20	March 21, 2006	Goethe-Institut Athen	Athens	Greece	Yorgos Sicilianos Memorial	Hellenic Society for Aesthetics	Ermis Theodorakis (piano)[Op. 23, 32, 45], Georgios Demertzis (violin) [Op. 45]	N/A	Etudes Compositionnelles Op. 32, Eight Children's Miniatures Op. 23, Violin Sonata Op. 45
21	September 18, 2014	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Leuven	Belgium	EuroMAC 2014 - Eighth European Music Analysis Conference	EuroMAC 2014 & Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Fani Karagianni (piano)	N/A	Eight Children's Miniatures, Op. 23
22	February 19, 2016	Corfu Reading Society	Corfu	Greece	N/A	Corfu Reading Society	Athena Fytika (piano)	N/A	Eight Children's Miniatures op. 23
23	April 2, 2016	Aris Garoufalis Hall, Athens Conservatoire	Athens	Greece	1st Composition Competition “Yorgos Sicilianos”	Athens Conservatoire & Greek Composer's Union	Ellie Filippou (cello) (Op. 59), Maria Eustratiadi (piano)	N/A	Eight Children's Miniatures Op. 23, Cello Sonata Op. 59
24	May 27, 2016	Music Library “Lilian Voudouri”, Athens Concert Hall	Athens	Greece	Book Launch - Yorgos Sicilianos 1920 - 2005 - Anniversary Tribute	Friends of Music Society	Maria Eustratiadi (piano)	N/A	Eight Children's Miniatures Op. 23
25	May 13, 2022	"Aris Garoufalis" Hall, Athens Conservatoire	Athens	Greece	Tribute to Yorgos Sicilianos	Athens Conservatoire	Maria Eustratiadi, (piano) (Op. 23. Op. 32), Rosa Poulimenou-Kapon (mezzo-soprano/narration), Giannis Sambrovalakis (clarinet), Iris Louka (viola), Korina Vougiouka (guitar), Nikos Tsouchlos (conductor)	N/A	Eight Children’s Miniatures Op. 23, Études Compositionnelles Op. 32, The Lady in the Moonlight Op. 41

Performers

#	Name	Performer Type	Ensembles/Organisations	Profile
1	Aliki Vatikioti	Pianist		View
2	Anna Tsitsa-Kounio	Pianist		View
3	Athena Fytika	Pianist	Ionian University	View
4	Charis Dimaras	Pianist, Conductor		View
5	Effie Agrafioti	Pianist, Author		View
6	Ermis Theodorakis	Pianist, Composer		View
7	Fani Karagianni	Pianist	Philippos Nakas Conservatory	View
8	Maria Chairogiorgou-Sigara	Pianist		View
9	Maria Eustratiadi	Pianist	Athens Conservatory	View
10	Maria Neophytidou	Pianist		View
11	Marilyn Neely	Pianist	Ohio State University University of Maryland Catholic University of America	View
12	Miranda Stronghili	Pianist, Author		View
13	Popi Eustratiadi	Pianist, Author		View

Conferences & Events

#	Image	Name	Type	Location	Year	Event Page
1		Corfu Reading Society - An event in honour of the late composer and member of the society, Yorgos Sicilianos	Commemorative	Corfu Reading Society	2016	View
2		Book Launch - Yorgos Sicilianos 1920 - 2005 - Anniversary Tribute	Book Launch	Music Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri”	2016	View

References

Valia Christopoulou, Yorgos Sicilianos Catalogue of Works [Κατάλογος Έργων Γιώργου Σισιλιάνου] (Athens: Panas Music Papagrigoriou - Nakas, 2011), 68-70
Anastasios Rupert Arthur Mavroudis, Sicilianos, The Greek Modernist: Performing Selected Chamber Works and Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 51 (Athens: Benaki Museum, 2020), 12, 270, 279, 280
Yorgos Sicilianos, On Music [Για τη Μουσική], ed. Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou, foreword by Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou (Athens: Benaki Museum, Hellenic Music Centre, 2011), 180, 181, 198, 199, 205, 324, 325, 425
Dimitris Agrafiotis, Theodore Antoniou, Tatsis Apostolidis, Valia Christopoulou, Giorgos Demertzis, Popi Eustratiadi, Byron Fidetzis, Gianni Ioannides, Apostolos Kostios, Giorgos Kouroupos, Katy Romanou, Yorgos Sicilianos, Michalis Stathopoulos, Nikos Synodinos, and Nikos B. Tsouchlos. Yorgos Sicilianos: In the Avant-Garde of Contemporary Music [Γιώργος Σισιλιανός - Ο συνθέτης στην πρωτοπορία της σύγχρονης μουσικής]. Edited by Valentini Tselika. (Athens: Benaki Museum, 2007), 116, 117, 118, 127, 185, 198, 199, 232, 233, 243
Kostas Chardas, Giorgos Demertzis, Charis Dimaras, Nikos Maliaras, Giorgos Sakallieros, Nikos B. Tsouchlos, Markos Tsetsos, and Panos Vlagopoulos. Yorgos Sicilianos 1920-2005 - Anniversary Tribute [Γιωργος Σισιλιανος 1920-2005 Επετειακο αφιερωμα]. Edited by Stephania Merakos and Valia Vraka. (Athens: Friends of Music Association, 2016), 65, 109, 116

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