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Composer of the Week

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An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Nikos Skalkottas (1904-1949)

Composer of the Week: Nikos Skalkottas (1904-1949): Episode 2: I Am Now Schoenberg's Right Hand

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Episode 2: I Am Now Schoenberg's Right Hand

Nikos Skalkottas (1904-1949)

I Am Now Schoenberg's Right Hand

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Nikos Skalkottas (1904-1949), I Am Now Schoenberg's Right Hand

Donald Macleod on Skalkottas's studies with Schoenberg in the early 1930s in Berlin.

Donald Macleod focuses on Skalkottas's studies with Schoenberg in the early 1930s in Berlin, when he proved himself to be highly gifted.

Skalkottas became one of Schoenberg's favoured pupils during his studies with him in the early 1930s in Berlin. But while Skalkottas was exploring 12 tone method with his teacher, he also developed an interest in Greek folk music. This was an exciting time for Skalkottas, but one that was fraught with financial difficulties, until a rich patron, Manolis Benakis, agreed to sponsor him, on condition that the composer help him deal in manuscripts, books and records in return. This arrangement would prove difficult for the depressive and reclusive Skalkottas, as Donald Macleod discovers.

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Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Greek composer Nikos Skalkottas

Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Greek composer Nikos Skalkottas, who died at the age of 46 with virtually none of his 150 or so works having been published or even performed in public

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