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Etudes Compositionnelles

for Piano

Etudes Compositionnelles pour piano op. 32

Catalogue No.: YSC73

Status: Completed

Opus: 32

Genre: Solo

Creative Timeline: Second Period

Dedication:

"To Popi Efstratiadis"

Number of Movements: 8

Movement Titles:

Pour le rythme
Pour le timbre
Pour l’harmonie
…et pour la melodie
Pour la dynamique
Pour la forme I …Thèmes et variations
Pour la forme II- Thèmes juxtaposés sériels
Pour la Forme III – Thèmes juxtaposés libres – CODA

Instrumentation:

Piano

Written in: Athens

Date: January 19, 1974

Duration: 00:22:40

Sicilianos Archive Files

#	Archive Title	Description	Number of Pages	Digital Format	Linked File
1	Sketch Material	Scan of the sketch material.	29	PDF	View or Download
2	Draft Score	Scan of the draft score.	40	PDF	View or Download
3	Full Score	Scan of the full score.	32	PDF	View or Download

Discography

#	Title	Artist(s)	Work(s) by Sicilianos	Format	Label	Release Date	Album Page
1	Works for Piano by Greek Composers - First Series	Effie Agrafioti	Etudes Compositionnelles Op. 32	LP - Vinyl	Motivo	1981	View
2	Works for Piano by Greek Composers - First Series	Effie Agrafioti	Etudes Compositionnelles Op. 32	Cassette	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

Texts

#	Cover	Title	Type	Authorship Year	Language	Remarks	Text Page
1		Modern Music in Greece Today	Lecture	1991	Greek		View
2		Interview with Valia Christopoulou	Interview	1998	Greek		View

Books

#	Cover	Title	Author(s)	Publisher	Publication Year	Type	Category	Language	Pages	Item Page
1		Perspectives on Greek Musical Modernism	Kostas Chardas, Valia Christopoulou, Dimitris Exarchos, Theodore Karathodoros, Eva Mantzourani, Giorgos Sakallieros, Yorgos Sicilianos, Makis Solomos, Danae Stefanou, Ioannis Tsagkarakis, Costas Tsougras, Panos Vlagopoulos, Petros Vouvaris	Routledge	2025	Musicology	Edited Volume	English		View

Articles & Papers

#	Cover	Title	Author(s)	Affiliation	Publication Year	Language	Remarks	Item Page
1		A selective appropriation: Yorgos Sicilianos between modernism and postmodernism	Valia (Stavroula) Christopoulou	University of Athens	2025	English		View

Performances

#	Date	Venue	City	Country	Festival	Organiser	Artist(s)	Ensemble(s)	Work(s) Performed
1	April 10, 1973	Hilton	Athens	Greece	Arts Week '73	Pierce College Athens & Hellenic Association of Contemporary Music (Ελληνικός Σύνδεσμος Σύχγρονης Μουσικής)	Popi Eustratiadi (piano)	N/A	Etudes Compositionnelles, Op. 32 (Etudes 1 - 5)
2	February 12, 1975	Theatre of the Society for Macedonian Studies	Thessaloniki	Greece	N/A	"Art" Macedonian Artistic Society	Popi Eustratiadi (piano)	N/A	Etudes Compositionnelles, Op. 32
3	February 20, 1975	French Institute	Athens	Greece	N/A	N/A	Popi Eustratiadi (piano)	N/A	Etudes Compositionnelles, Op. 32
4	April 18, 1978	House of Fine Arts and Letters	Athens	Greece	N/A	N/A	Popi Eustratiadi (piano)	N/A	Etudes Compositionnelles, Op. 32
5	February 27, 1981	Rialto Theatre	Athens	Greece	Ekphrasis '80-'81	Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sciences	Effie Agrafioti (piano)	N/A	Etudes Compositionnelles, Op. 32
6	November 16, 1981	Sala Vanni, Basilica di Santa Maria del Carmine	Florence	Italy	I linguaggi della musica contemporanea	Musicus Concentus	Popi Eustratiadi (piano)	N/A	Etudes Compositionnelles, Op. 32
7	November 22, 1981	Lusitania Theatre	Athens	Greece	Ekphrasis '81-'82 - Celebratory Concert for the 50th anniversary of the Greek Composers' Union	Greek Composers' Union & Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sciences	Popi Eustratiadi (piano)	N/A	Etudes Compositionnelles, Op. 32
8	October 8, 1982	Le Titoit de Titus	Nîmes	France	Octobre Musical	Association Nîmoise d'initiative musicale	Jacques Raynaut (piano)	N/A	Etudes Compositionnelles, Op. 32
9	October 9, 1982	Le Titoit de Titus	Nîmes	France	Octobre Musical	Association Nîmoise d'initiative musicale	Jacques Raynaut (piano)	N/A	Etudes Compositionnelles, Op. 32
10	November 26, 1982		Castelnau-le-Lez	France	Musiques Méditerranéennes	Collectif de musique contemporaine du Languedoc-Roussillon	Jacques Raynaut (piano)	N/A	Etudes Compositionnelles, Op. 32
11	January 23, 1983	Château de Grignan	Grignan	France	Musiques Méditerranéennes	Collectif de musique contemporaine du Languedoc-Roussillon	Jacques Raynaut (piano)	N/A	Etudes Compositionnelles, Op. 32
12	January 26, 1983	Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Marsiglia	Marseille	France	Musiques Méditerranéennes	Collectif de musique contemporaine du Languedoc-Roussillon	Jacques Raynaut (piano)	N/A	Etudes Compositionnelles, Op. 32
13	February 1, 1983	Conservatoire du Grand Avignon	Avignon	France	Week of Contemporary Greek Music	MC2 - Musique Contemporaine 2 & French Ministry of Culture	Jacques Raynaut (piano)	N/A	Etudes Compositionnelles, Op. 32
14	February 27, 1991	Theatre of the Society for Macedonian Studies	Thessaloniki	Greece	N/A	Hellenic Society for Aesthetics, School of Music Studies - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki	Popi Eustratiadi (piano)	N/A	Etudes Compositionnelles, Op. 32
15	February 27, 1991	Philippos Nakas Conservatoire Hall	Athens	Greece	N/A	Hellenic Society for Aesthetics, School of Music Studies - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki	Popi Eustratiadi (piano)	N/A	Etudes Compositionnelles, Op. 32
16	April 5, 1994	French Institute	Athens	Greece	N/A	N/A	Viviane Gomori (piano)	N/A	Etudes Compositionnelles, Op. 32
17	April 1, 1996	Goethe Institute of Athens	Athens	Greece	N/A	Athens Music Society	Ermis Theodorakis (piano)	N/A	Etudes Compositionnelles. Op. 32
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	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
20	March 20, 2007	Benaki Museum	Athens	Greece	Exhibition - Yorgos Sicilianos 1920-2005, the composer in the avant-garde of contemporary music	Benaki Museum	Georgios Demertzis (violin) (Op. 45, 46), Apostolos Chandrakis (cello) (Op. 46), Ermis Theodorakis (piano) (Op. 32, 45, 46, 48), Daniël Kramer (piano) (Op. 48)	N/A	Etudes Compositionnelles Op. 32, Violin Sonata Op. 45, Pantoum Op. 46, Contrastes Op. 48
21	December 2, 2017	Tellogleio Foundation of Arts, University of Thessaloniki	Thessaloniki	Greece	Interdepartmental Conference under the auspices of the Hellenic Musicological Society	Hellenic Musicological Society	Ermis Theodorakis (piano)	N/A	Etudes Compositionnelles Op. 32
22	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	Effie Agrafioti	Pianist, Author		View
2	Ermis Theodorakis	Pianist, Composer		View
3	Jacques Raynaut	Pianist		View
4	Maria Eustratiadi	Pianist	Athens Conservatory	View
5	Popi Eustratiadi	Pianist, Author		View
6	Viviane Gomori	Pianist		View

Conferences & Events

#	Image	Name	Type	Location	Year	Event Page
1		Yorgos Sicilianos 1920-2005, the composer in the avant-garde of contemporary music	Exhibition	Benaki Museum	2007	View

References

Valia Christopoulou, Yorgos Sicilianos Catalogue of Works [Κατάλογος Έργων Γιώργου Σισιλιάνου] (Athens: Panas Music Papagrigoriou - Nakas, 2011), 88-90
Anastasios Rupert Arthur Mavroudis, Sicilianos, The Greek Modernist: Performing Selected Chamber Works and Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 51 (Athens: Benaki Museum, 2020), 11, 274, 279
Yorgos Sicilianos, On Music [Για τη Μουσική], ed. Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou, foreword by Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou (Athens: Benaki Museum, Hellenic Music Centre, 2011), 181, 189, 347, 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), 21, 115, 119-122, 164, 186, 232, 233
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, 117

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