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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 4: The Hidden Man

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Nikos Skalkottas (1904-1949)

The Hidden Man

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Nikos Skalkottas (1904-1949), The Hidden Man

Donald Macleod focuses on Skalkottas's experiences during the Second World War in Greece.

Donald Macleod looks at Skalkottas's experiences during the Second World War in Greece, when he was imprisoned in Haidari concentration camp by the SS.

In Athens Skalkottas had to go back to being a working musician again, joining the orchestra of the Athens Conservatory. The former violin gold-medallist of the Conservatory took his place on the front desk of the first violins, but over the next few years, he found himself humiliatingly demoted, until he was relegated to the back desk, where he stayed for the rest of his life. He felt frustrated, depressed and isolated, and gradually withdrew into an inner exile, playing in the orchestra by day, and composing at night. During the Nazi occupation of Greece Skalkottas didn't engage with the war going on around him, but found himself suspected of being a member of the resistance and imprisoned in Haidari concentration camp by the SS. Donald Macleod explores this, the most difficult period of Skalkottas' life.

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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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