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Greek composer and philologist
Konstantinos Agathophron Nikolopoulos
(
Greek
:
Κωνσταντ?νο? Αγαθ?φρων Νικολ?πουλο?
; 1786 – 12 June 1841) was a
Greek
composer
,
philologist
and colleague of
Adamantios Korais
.
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Biography
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Konstantinos Nikolopoulos was born in
Smyrna
,
Ottoman Empire
and grew up in
Paris
. Being somewhat of a "
Renaissance Man
" (that is, an individual with many varied skills and talents), he was employed as librarian in the
French Institute
, where he worked for much of his life.
He was a member of the
Philiki Etaireia
, the underground revolutionary Greek organization working for the liberation of the Greeks from the
Ottoman Empire
. He died in Paris, at the age of 55,
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while he donated his library to the municipality of
Andritsaina
, origin place of his father.
Compositions
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Josef Fink
helped bring some fame to Nikolopoulos by referring to his compositions in
"Die Arkadische Sendung Des Konstantinos Nikolopoulos"
in 1980. Some of his works were based on
Ancient Greek
texts, while he composed also religious music. Some of his compositions include the following:
- Three Romances
- Ezekiel's Dream
- A Cantata for Palaeon Patron Germanos
- The Song of the Greek
- The Cry of the Greeks
- Prooemion to the Iliad
- Kyrie Eleison
(religious)
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