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The Lady in the Moonlight

a dramatic scene.

Η Κυρία του Σεληνόφωτος δραματική σκηνή έργο 43

Catalogue No.: YSC85

Status: Completed

Related Work: The Lady in the Moonlight

Opus: 43

Genre: Dramatic Scene

Creative Timeline: Second Period

Number of Movements: 1

Instrumentation:

2211-2100, Timpani, Percussion (Xylophone, Glockenspiel, Crotale, Cymbals, Cymbal struck with Sticks, Tam-Tam, Triangle, Tambourine, Snare Drum), Harp, Strings, Characters: The Woman (contralto), The Young Man (Actor – figurant)

Written in: Athens

Date: October 24, 1979

Duration: 00:30:00

Sicilianos Archive Files

#	Archive Title	Description	Number of Pages	Digital Format	Linked File
1	Full Score	Scan of the full score.	62	PDF	View or Download
2	Draft Score	Scan of the draft score.	67	PDF	View or Download
3	Composer's Note	Scan of the composer's note.	2	PDF	View or Download

Intertextuality

#	Image	Title	Creator	Type	Remarks	Work Page
1		The Moonlight Sonata	Yannis Ritsos	Play		View
2		Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2	Ludwig van Beethoven	Music		View

Texts

#	Cover	Title	Type	Authorship Year	Language	Remarks	Text Page
1		Modern Music in Greece Today	Lecture	1991	Greek		View

Articles & Papers

#	Cover	Title	Author(s)	Affiliation	Publication Year	Language	Remarks	Item Page
1		The Lady in the Moonlight by Yorgos Sicilianos - A Look At The Composer’s Workshop (II)	Nikos B. Tsouchlos	Department of Music Studies, Ionian University Athens Conservatoire	2016	Greek		View

Performances

#	Date	Venue	City	Country	Festival	Organiser	Artist(s)	Ensemble(s)	Work(s) Performed
1	November 24, 1988	Pallas Theatre	Athens	Greece	N/A	ERT- National Symphony Orchestra	Alkis Baltas (conductor), Alexandra Papadjiakou (mezzo-soprano), Petros Fyssoun (narrator)	ERT- National Symphony Orchestra	The Lady in the Moonlight, Op. 43 (in concert)

Performers

#	Name	Performer Type	Ensembles/Organisations	Profile
1	Alexandra Papadjiakou	Mezzo-Soprano	Greek National Opera	View
2	Alkis Baltas	Conductor, Composer	ERT- National Symphony Orchestra, Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, Athens State Orchestra	View
3	Petros Fyssoun	Actor, Director, Narrator		View
4	Yannis Ritsos	Poet, Narrator		View

References

Valia Christopoulou, Yorgos Sicilianos Catalogue of Works [Κατάλογος Έργων Γιώργου Σισιλιάνου] (Athens: Panas Music Papagrigoriou - Nakas, 2011), 114-115
Anastasios Rupert Arthur Mavroudis, Sicilianos, The Greek Modernist: Performing Selected Chamber Works and Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 51 (Athens: Benaki Museum, 2020), 9, 274, 275
Yorgos Sicilianos, On Music [Για τη Μουσική], ed. Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou, foreword by Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou (Athens: Benaki Museum, Hellenic Music Centre, 2011), 348, 426
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), 97, 101, 102, 105, 186, 206
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, 71-90, 118, 123

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