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Synthesis

for strings and percussion

Σύνθεση για έγχορδα και κρουστά έργο 21

Catalogue No.: YSC59

Status: Completed

Related Work: String Quartet No. 3

Opus: 21

Genre: Orchestral

Creative Timeline: Second Period

Number of Movements: 5

Movement Titles:

Lento
Allegretto comodo
Allegro sottile e sempre scherzando
Andante espressivo
Allegro

Instrumentation:

Double Strings and Percussion (4 Performers: Timpani, Xylophone, Glockenspiel, Triangle, Cymbals, Tamtam, Gong (smaller Tamtam), Tom, Snare Drum, Bass Drum)

Written in: Athens

Date: January 29, 1962

Sicilianos Archive Files

#	Cover/First Page	Archive Title	Description	Number of Pages	Digital Format	Linked File
1		Full Score	Scan of the full score.	50	PDF	View or Download

Texts

#	Cover	Title	Type	Authorship Year	Language	Remarks	Text Page
1		My Music of the Last Fifteen Years (1952-1967)	Lecture	1967	Greek		View

Performances

#	Date	Venue	City	Country	Festival	Organiser	Artist(s)	Ensemble(s)	Work(s) Performed
1	November 26, 1962	Kotopouli Rex Theatre	Athens	Greece	N/A	Athens State Orchestra	Andreas Paridis (conductor)	Athens State Orchestra	Synthesis Op. 21
2	December 10, 1965		Paris	France	N/A	Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (ORTF)	Charles Bruck (conductor)	Orchestre Philharmonique de l'ORTF - (Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France)	Synthesis Op. 21

Performers

#	Name	Performer Type	Ensembles/Organisations	Profile
1	Andreas Paridis	Conductor		View
2	Athens State Orchestra	Orchestra		View
3	Charles Bruck	Conductor	Orchestre Philharmonique de l'ORTF - (Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France)	View
4	Orchestre Philharmonique de l'ORTF	Orchestra	Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (ORTF)	View

References

Valia Christopoulou, Yorgos Sicilianos Catalogue of Works [Κατάλογος Έργων Γιώργου Σισιλιάνου] (Athens: Panas Music Papagrigoriou - Nakas, 2011), 64-65
Anastasios Rupert Arthur Mavroudis, Sicilianos, The Greek Modernist: Performing Selected Chamber Works and Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 51 (Athens: Benaki Museum, 2020), 247, 269
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), 175, 177, 185, 198
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), 116

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