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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 3: Everything Is a Big Disappointment

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Nikos Skalkottas (1904-1949)

Everything Is a Big Disappointment

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Nikos Skalkottas (1904-1949), Everything Is a Big Disappointment

Donald Macleod focuses on Skalkottas's reluctant return to Greece from Berlin.

Donald Macleod focuses on Skalkottas's reluctant return to Greece from Berlin after Hitler's rise to power.

Skalkottas managed to burn his bridges both with his patron and with potential employers in Greece in the early 1930s, and after Hitler's rise to power in 1933, the composer, now deeply in debt, was put on a train back to Athens and his passport impounded. On his return, he had a complete nervous breakdown. The only thing he lived for was composition, and for the next ten years he would write music at a prolific rate. With Donald Macleod.

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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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