Kostas Giannidis

Giannis Konstantinidis (Greek Γιάννης Κωνσταντινίδης, as Yiannis and Iannis Constantinidis and transcribed; born August 21, 1903 in Smyrna (now Izmir), † January 17, 1984 in Athens ) was a Greek composer of classical music, a pianist and conductor, who the pseudonym Kostas Giannidis ( gr Κώστας Γιαννίδης ) also a successful composer of popular songs was Greek.

Life

Konstantinidis came as the son of a wealthy upper class family in Smyrna to the world that originally came from Zagora on the Pelion. He grew up in the liberal climate of the city, which at that time had 40 theaters where operas and operettas were given. First lessons in harmony, he received as a child of Dimosthenis Milanakis. It was also the folk music of the workers from the suburbs of Smyrna and the formative of the peasant population from the surrounding rural areas of the city for him. In April 1922, shortly before the reconquest of Smyrna by the Turks in the Greek -Turkish War Konstantinidis left his hometown and went to first to Dresden, in January 1923, finally to Berlin, where he remained until 1930. Here he studied with Paul Juon composition ( 1923-24 ), piano with Karl Rössler, conducting with Carl Ehrenberg and orchestration with Kurt Weill. In Berlin, he met the pupil of Schoenberg Nikos Skalkottas, with whom he became friends. Since his family could no longer support him financially after the destruction of Smyrna, he worked as a pianist in cabaret and film screenings as well as in radio and thus for the most important new media of the Roaring Twenties. As a composer he stepped under the pseudonym Costa Dorres first time in 1927 with the premiere of the operetta The Liebesbazillus in Stralsund in appearance.

1931 moved Konstantinidis to Athens, where he mainly worked as a composer of popular songs to secure his livelihood. From 1946 to 1952 he was head of department for popular music at the Greek public broadcasting ( EIR), 1952-1960 Music Director in broadcasting the Greek armed forces. After 1960 he worked as a freelance composer. For his popular compositions he used to distinguish it from the equally successful Grigoris Konstantinidis, the pseudonym Kostas Giannidis, which was soon known as his real name, under which it is less prominent, but steadily and with increasing success compositions for orchestra and other classical ensembles, piano music and a variety of art songs composed. In the 1960s, he was successful in a few hits competitions. So the song agapi mou Xypna made ​​( Ξύπνα αγάπη μου, for example, Wake up, my dearest ') for the first award of the singer Nana Mouskouri, who in 1960 finished in the competition of the Festival Internacional del Mediterraneo in Barcelona the first place. The singers Angela Zilia and Keti Belinda were successful with his songs.

Works

As Giannidis Konstantinidis created over 50 works for the stage, seven film scores and many individual songs and pop. Under his real name he composed mainly of Greek folk music inspired in the ductus late romantic works that make him a late representative of the Greek National School. Particularly numerous is his song writing in the field of classical music.

Operettas

  • The Liebesbazillus, 1927
  • Koumbara ( Κουμπάρα ), 1932
  • Ine etsi i zoi ( Έτσι είναι η Ζωή, That's Life '), Libretto: D. Evangelidis
  • Koritsia tis Pandrias ( Κορίτσια της Παντρειάς ) Libretto: D. Evangelidis and Alexandros Sakellarios
  • Reportáž ( Ρεπορτάζ, reportage ') Libretto: D. Giannoukakis

Musical Comedies

  • Alepou ( Αλεπού ), 1940
  • Panathinea ( Παναθήναια, Panathenaic ' ), 1940
  • Kolokythia ( Κολοκυθιά ), Text: D. Giannoukakis, 1933
  • Keramida ( Κεραμίδα )
  • Maskot ( Μασκώτ )
  • Koketta ( Κοκέττα )
  • Silouetta ( Σιλουέττα ), 1938
  • Apergia ( Απεργία ), 1936
  • Péripéties stin eparxia ( Περιπέτειες επαρχία στην, adventures in the province ' ), text: Alexandros Sakellarios and Christos Giannakopoulos
  • Alithies ke psefties ( Αλήθειες και ψευτιές, Truths and Lies ' ), text: D. Giannoukakis, 1933
  • Zito o Romios ( Ζήτω ο Ρωμηός ), Text: M. Traiforos, 1947

Orchestral works

  • Dodekanesische Suite No. 1 ( Δωεκανησιακή σουΐτα Αρ. 1)
  • Dodekanesische Suite No. 2 ( Δωεκανησιακή σουΐτα Αρ. 2)
  • Three Greek Dances ( Τρεις ελληνικοί Χοροί )
  • Cycladic dance ( Κυκλαδίτικος Χορός )
  • Asia Minor Rhapsody ( Μικρασιατική Ραψωδία )

Chamber Music

  • 22 Songs and Dances of Dodecanese (22 τραγούδια και χοροί από τα Δωδεκάνησα ) for piano, 1943-46
  • Little Suite on dodekanesische topics ( Μικρή Σουίτα σε δωδεκανησιακά θέματα ) for violin and piano, 1947
  • 44 Children's Pieces on Themes of folk music (44 παιδικά κομμάτια σε λαϊκά θέματα ) for piano, u1957 1950-51, published in the U.S. as Greek Miniatures
  • Three Sonatinas for Piano, 1952
  • Eight Dances from Greek Islands (8 νησιώτικοι ελληνικοί χοροί ) for piano, 1954
  • Six Etudes on Greek rhythms of folk music (6 σπουδές σε ελληνικούς λαϊκούς ρυθμούς ) for piano, 1956-58
  • Ten Greek sages (10 ελληνικοί σκοποί ) for wind quintet, 1972

Vocal music

  • Five Songs of expectation (5 τραγούδια της προσμονής ) by Rabindranath Tagore for mezzo- soprano and piano, 1924-80
  • Five Love Songs ( 5 τραγούδια της αγάπης ), 1930-31
  • 20 songs of the Greek people (20 τραγούδια του ελληνικού λαού ), 1937-47
  • Eight dodekanesische and eight songs from Asia Minor (8 Δωδεκανησιακά και 8 Μικρασιατικά τραγούδια ) for mixed choir a cappella, 1972
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