Athens Conservatoire

The Conservatory of Athens (Greek Odio Athinón Ωδείο Αθηνών ) is the most significant University of Music in the country next to the National Conservatory.

History

The Conservatory was founded in 1871 under Prime Minister Alexandros Koumoundouros first music and theater school of modern Greece since 1864 outside the Greek Republic of the Ionian Islands. Except for violin and flute first, the focus was placed on the study of the music of the ancient world, from 1881, modern classical music lessons offered. Until then, the Classical Greece was dominated by the Italian composers dominated the Ionian school, among their representatives (such as Spyridon Xyndas ) also among the first teachers of the school. The piano was initially still explicitly excluded at the conservatory.

Significant for the development of classical music in Greece was particularly the director of the Conservatory Georgios Nazos leaving the Institute 1890-1924 and 1930-1934 led. Nazos had studied composition in Munich with Josef Gabriel Rheinberger and Ludwig Thuille and promoted the emergence of a Greek National School, modeled on the German late Romantic and rejected the music of the late 19th century Italian or French coinage. So he determined for many decades the development of Greek music, he was one of the key sponsors Manolis Kalomiris ', who in 1910 received a first teaching position at the Institute. This protege of Nazos late romantic, based on Wagner style should dominate the music of Greece until the Second World War crucial and largely inhibit the effect of new music on Greece. More importance, the Institute through the exploration of Greek folk music. 1903, a third faculty of Byzantine music was at the instigation Nazos ' was founded, which was in 1936 recognized as an official state school for church music. Armand Marsick ran from 1908 to 1916 the orchestra. For this later went out the National Orchestra. 1915 reached the Conservatory with 50 professors and teachers and 814 students its peak.

Then the Conservatory suffered from internal differences over the guide. They threw Nazos ago to lead the institution conservative and not open enough for poorer strata of the population. Musically, the too narrow focus was criticized at German classics. Finally Napoleon Lampelet, Dionysios Lavrangas, Spyros Samaras and Manolis Kalomiris left the institution. The latter founded the reformist Greek Conservatory. Nazos even handed in his resignation due to illness in 1924.

Martin Braunwieser as the flute professor at the Conservatoire taught campaigned in 1926 the pianist and composer Felix Petyrek as professor of piano class that taught this until 1930.

For a long time the Conservatory was housed in the building designed by Ioannis Despotopoulos, this is, however, currently renovated.

Professors (selection)

Graduates ( selection)

National Conservatoire (Greece) United States of the Ionian Islands Ionian School (music) Josef Rheinberger Hellenic Conservatory Antiochos Evangelatos
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