biography
| name: |
Skalkottas, Nikos or Nikolaus
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pronunciation:
[skalkotas]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1904–49)
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| biography:
| Composer, born in Khalkis, Greece. He studied at the Athens Conservatory and in Berlin, where he was a pupil of Weill and Schoenberg, then earned his living as an orchestral violinist in Athens. His works, dating mostly from the period 1935–45, show a complex use of serial techniques, and exploit Greek and Balkan folk elements, but were not much performed until after his death. |
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