Konstantinos Agathophron Nikolopoulos ( el, Κωνσταντίνος Αγαθόφρων Νικολόπουλος; 1786 – 12 June 1841) was a
Greek composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music.
Etymology and Defi ...
,
philologist and colleague of
Adamantios Korais.
Biography
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
Filiki Eteria or Society of Friends ( el, Φιλικὴ Ἑταιρεία ''or'' ) was a secret organization founded in 1814 in Odessa, whose purpose was to overthrow the Ottoman rule of Greece and establish an independent Greek state. (''retr ...
, 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,
Abstracts
/ref> while he donated his library to the municipality of Andritsaina, origin place of his father.
Compositions
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* Josef (surname)
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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)
References
External links
Princeton Classical Languages Instruction Project
(contains a segment of his "Prooemion to the Iliad")
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1786 births
1841 deaths
Greek composers
Smyrniote Greeks
Greek people of the Greek War of Independence
People of the Modern Greek Enlightenment
Members of the Filiki Eteria
18th-century Greek musicians
19th-century Greek musicians
Musicians from İzmir