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English Language : Classical Music : News : Autumn 2004 Saturday 20 November 2004 : Nikiforos Rotas died leaving behind his great lifetime attempt |
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Great Greek Composers Nikiforos Rotas was born on the 14th of May in 1929 and was a child of an intellectual family. He started to write music long before taking normal composition lessons, that, anyway, came a bit later. He eventually studied composition and oboe in the Music Academy of Vienna where he was finally rewarded with a scholarship. He also attended the famous Darmstadt seminars for two seasons. He came back to Greece in 1962 and largely dealt with activities having to do with music education, without neglecting, however, at all composing. He wrote music for the stage and for the radio, cinema and television as well. He was always trying to innovate and his music was constantly flirting with European avant-garde genre. His total output can be estimated as a long cultural course inside his own country, divided into his education activities and the set of his own compositions, which can be described as relatively heterogeneous and covering a large and interesting range of combinations concerning orchestration, genre used and purposes to be satisfied. He died on Wednesday the 17th of November 2004 leaving Greece with one brilliant human and artist less than before. Nikiforos Rotas was married with three children. |
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