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Sonata

for Violin and Piano

Σονάτα για Βιολί και Πιάνο έργο 45

Catalogue No.: YSC87

Status: Completed

Opus: 45

Genre: Chamber Music

Creative Timeline: Third Period

Dedication:

"To Linos."

Number of Movements: 3

Movement Titles:

Chaconne and Scherzo
Pantoum
Nijinksy

Instrumentation:

Violin and Piano

Written in: Athens

Date: March 24, 1981

Duration: 00:20:00

Sicilianos Archive Files

#	Archive Title	Description	Number of Pages	Digital Format	Linked File
1	Sketch Material	Scan of the sketch material.	19	PDF	View or Download
2	Draft Score	Scan of the draft score.	22	PDF	View or Download
3	Full Score	Scan of the full score.	31	PDF	View or Download
4	Composer's Note	Scan of the composer's note.	1	PDF	View or Download

Intertextuality

#	Title	Creator	Type	Remarks	Work Page
1	At the Edge of the Port	Yannis Ritsos	Poem	Chaconne and Scherzo (musical material in the Scherzo)	View
2	Chaconne	Johann Sebastian Bach	Music	Chaconne and Scherzo	View
3	Pantoum	Giorgos Seferis	Poem	2. Pantoum	View
4	Nijinsky	Giorgos Seferis	Poem	3. Nijinksy	View

Editions

#	Cover	Title	Publisher	Publication Year	Edition Page
1		Sonata for violin and piano, Op. 45	Sicilianos.Org	2020	View

Discography

#	Album Cover	Title	Artist(s)	Work(s) by Sicilianos	Format	Label	Release Date	Album Page
1		Yorgo Sicilianos - Violin Sonata & Second Quartet	Aris Garoufalis, Ersi Kagelari, Fita Valenti, Giannis Vatikiotis, Hellenic Quartet, Tatsis Apostolidis	Sonata for Violin and Piano Op. 45, String Quartet No. 2 Op. 13	LP - Vinyl	Lyra	1982	View
2		Yorgos Sicilianos: Chamber Music II	Apostolos Chandrakis, Chara Sira, Dimitrios Chandrakis, Georgios Demertzis, Maria Asteriadou, New Hellenic Quartet	Quintet for Piano and Strings Op. 61, Sonata for Violin and Piano Op. 45, String Quartet No. 4 Op. 28, String Quartet No. 5 Op. 53	Compact Disc	Leskhi tou diskou - Poikile Stoa	2006	View

Texts

#	Cover	Title	Type	Authorship Year	Language	Remarks	Text Page
1		Analysis of Sonata for Violin and Piano, Opus 45	Lecture	1981	Greek	Premiere performance	View

Books

#	Cover	Title	Author(s)	Publisher	Publication Year	Type	Category	Language	Pages	Item Page
1		Performing Sicilianos: Selected Chamber Works and Concerto for Violin and Orchestra	Anastasios Rupert Arthur Mavroudis	University of London	2015	Musicology, Performance	Thesis	English		View
2		Sicilianos, The Greek Modernist	Anastasios Rupert Arthur Mavroudis	Benaki Museum	2020	Musicology, Performance	Monograph	English	155-200, 358-384	View

Articles & Papers

#	Cover	Title	Author(s)	Affiliation	Publication Year	Language	Remarks	Item Page
1		Performing Sicilianos: An Analytical and Interpretative Approach to the Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op. 45 by Yorgos Sicilianos	Anastasios Mavroudis	Goldsmiths College, University of London	2014	English		View

Performances

#	Date	Venue	City	Country	Festival	Organiser	Artist(s)	Ensemble(s)	Work(s) Performed
1	January 21, 1982	French Institute	Athens	Greece	N/A	N/A	Tatsis Apostolidis (violin), Aris Garoufalis (piano)	N/A	Violin Sonata, Op. 45
2	February 1, 1983	Ecole de Musique de Bagnols sur Cèze	Bagnols sur Cèze	France	Week of Contemporary Greek Music	MC2 - Musique Contemporaine 2 & French Ministry of Culture	Agnès Mejean (violin), Jacques Raynaut (piano), Alain Lhuillier (tuba)	N/A	Violin Sonata, Op. 45 - Etude for Solo Tuba, Op. 35
3	February 9, 1983	Salle Moliere, Opéra Comédie	Montpellier	France	N/A	Collectif de musique contemporaine du Languedoc-Roussillon	Agnès Mejean (violin), Jacques Raynaut (piano)	N/A	Violin Sonata, Op. 45
4	December 5, 1984	Konzervatórium Bratislava (Bratislava Conservatory)	Bratislava	Slovakia	N/A	N/A	Viktor Šimčisko (violin), Helena Gáfforová (piano)	N/A	Violin Sonata, Op. 45
5	December 11, 1984	Valdštejnský palác (Wallenstein Palace)	Prague	Czech Republic	N/A	N/A	Viktor Šimčisko (violin), Helena Gáfforová (piano)	N/A	Violin Sonata, Op. 45
6	January 25, 1986	National Gallery of Greece - Live Broadcast by First Program (ERT)	Athens	Greece	N/A	National Gallery of Greece, Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT)	Dimitris Vraskos (violin), Nelli Semitekolo (piano)	N/A	Violin Sonata, Op. 45
7	December 14, 2000	Dimitri Mitropoulos Hall	Athens	Greece	A Tribute to Composer Yorgo Sicilianos	Athens Concert Hall	Georgios Demertzis (violin I), Dimitrios Chandrakis (violin II), Paris Anastasiadis (viola), Apostolos Chandrakis (cello) [Op. 28 & Op. 53] - Georgios Demertzis (violin), Maria Asteriadou (piano) [Op. 45] - Maria Asteriadou (piano), Georgios Demertzis (violin), Apostolos Chandrakis (cello) [Op. 46]	New Hellenic Quartet	String Quartet No. 4, Op. 28 - Violin Sonata, Op. 45 - Pantoum, Op. 46 - String Quartet No. 5, Op. 53
8	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
9	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
10	June 16, 2010	Council Chamber - Deptford Town Hall	London	UK	PureGold	Goldsmiths College, University of London	Anastasios Mavroudis (violin I), Markella Vandoros (violin II), Alexandros Koustas (viola), Alex Eichenberger (cello) [Op. 13], Anastasios Mavroudis(violin), Nikos Stavlas (piano) [Op. 45]	Tettix Quartet	String Quartet No. 2, Op. 13 - Violin Sonata, Op. 45
11	February 26, 2011	Philippos Nakas Conservatoire Hall	Athens	Greece	N/A	Philippos Nakas Music Publishing - Youth Series Concerts (Οι νέοι για τους νέους)	Anastasios Mavroudis (violin), Philip Howard (piano)	N/A	Violin Sonata, Op. 45
12	November 8, 2012	Council Chamber - Deptford Town Hall	London	UK	N/A	Goldsmiths College, University of London	Anastasios Mavroudis (violin I), Markella Vandoros (violin II), Shiry Rashkovsky (viola), Magdalena Pietraszewska (cello)[Op. 13, Op. 28], Anastasios Mavroudis(violin), Philip Howard (piano) [Op. 45]	Tettix Quartet	String Quartet No. 2, Op. 13 - String Quartet No. 4, Op. 28 - Violin Sonata, Op. 45
13	October 27, 2014	Council Chamber - Deptford Town Hall	London	UK	N/A	Goldsmiths College, University of London	Anastasios Mavroudis (violin I), Markella Vandoros (violin II), Shiry Rashkovsky (viola), Julia Morneweg (cello) [Op. 13, Op. 28] - Anastasios Mavroudis (violin), Anahit Chaushyan (piano) [Op. 45]	Tettix Quartet	String Quartet No. 2, Op. 13 - String Quartet No. 4, Op. 28 - Violin Sonata, Op. 45
14	February 17, 2019	McGeorge Conservatory	Rafina	Greece	N/A	Society of Friends of Music of Rafina	Anastasios Mavroudis (violin), Lysianne Chen (piano)	N/A	Violin Sonata, Op. 45
15	February 18, 2019	Aris Garoufalis Hall, Athens Conservatory - Live Broadcast on Hellenic Parliament TV	Athens	Greece	Persons Worthy of Honour (Πρόσωπα Άξια Τιμής)	Hellenic Parliament Foundation for Parliamentarism and Democracy, Athens Conservatory	Anastasios Mavroudis (violin), Lysianne Chen (piano) [Op. 45] - Ellie Filippou (cello), Maria Eustratiadi (piano) [Op. 59]	N/A	Violin Sonata, Op. 45 - Cello Sonata, Op. 59

Performers

#	Name	Performer Type	Ensembles/Organisations	Profile
1	Agnès Mejean	Violinist		View
2	Anahit Chaushyan	Pianist	Fugata Quintet	View
3	Anastasios Mavroudis	Violinist, Musicologist	Tettix Quartet	View
4	Aris Garoufalis	Pianist	Athens Conservatory, Athens State Orchestra	View
5	Dimitris Vraskos	Violinist	Hellenic Group of Contemporary Music Contemporary Music Quartet	View
6	Georgios Demertzis	Violinist	New Hellenic Quartet	View
7	Helena Gáfforová	Pianist, Harpsichordist	Bratislava Piano Quartet	View
8	Jacques Raynaut	Pianist		View
9	Lysianne Chen	Pianist		View
10	Maria Asteriadou	Pianist	Manhattan School of Music Kutztown University	View
11	Nelli Semitekolo	Pianist		View
12	Nikos Stavlas	Pianist		View
13	Philip Howard	Pianist, Composer		View
14	Tatsis Apostolidis	Violinist, Conductor, Author	Hellenic Quartet Athens State Orchestra Athens Conservatoire	View
15	Viktor Šimčisko	Violinist	Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra	View
16	Yannis Ritsos	Poet, Narrator		View

Conferences & Events

#	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
2	EuroMAC 2014 (Eighth European Music Analysis Conference)	Conference	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	2014	View
3	Event Series: People Worthy of Honour - An event dedicated to the memory of Yorgos Sicilianos	Commemorative	Athens Conservatoire	2019	View
4	Book Launch - Sicilianos, The Greek Modernist	Book Launch	Music Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri”	2020	View

Broadcasts

#	Image	Title	Format	Channel/Station	Date	Broadcast Page
1		An event dedicated to the memory of Yorgos Sicilianos	Television	Hellenic Parliament TV	February 18, 2019	View
2		Book Launch - Sicilianos, The Greek Modernist	Stream	YouTube	September 4, 2020	View

References

Valia Christopoulou, Yorgos Sicilianos Catalogue of Works [Κατάλογος Έργων Γιώργου Σισιλιάνου] (Athens: Panas Music Papagrigoriou - Nakas, 2011), 118-121
Francis Guy, Yorgos Sicilianos - diapason a dialogue with Francis Guy [Γιωργος Σισιλιανος - διαπασων ενας διαλογος με τον Φρανσις Γκαϋ] (Cyprus: Cyprus Wine Museum, 2009), 68, 99, 101, 115, 117-118, 122
Yorgos Sicilianos: Chamber Music II (Γιώργος Σισιλιάνος: Μουσική Δωματίου ΙΙ), performed by the New Hellenic Quartet and Maria Asteriadou. Leskhi tou Diskou - Poikile Stoa, 2006, Compact Disc, 76:13. Catalogue No.: EA 7.77702.
Yorgo Sicilianos - Violin Sonata & Second Quartet (Γιώργος Σισιλιάνος - Σονάτα για Βιολί και Πιάνο & Κουαρτέτο Αρ. 2), performed by Tatsis Apostolidis, Aris Garoufalis, and the Hellenic Quartet. Lyra, 1982, LP. Catalogue No.: 0274.
Anastasios Rupert Arthur Mavroudis, Sicilianos, The Greek Modernist: Performing Selected Chamber Works and Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 51 (Athens: Benaki Museum, 2020), 155-200, 358-384
Yorgos Sicilianos, On Music [Για τη Μουσική], ed. Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou, foreword by Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou (Athens: Benaki Museum, Hellenic Music Centre, 2011), 329, 331, 334
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), 23, 59, 130, 133, 135, 186, 208, 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), 92, 99, 101, 105, 118

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