Konstantinos Agathophron Nikolopoulos ( el, Κωνσταντίνος Αγαθόφρων Νικολόπουλος; 1786 – 12 June 1841) was a

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composer,

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and colleague of

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Biography

Konstantinos Nikolopoulos was born in

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and grew up in

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. Being somewhat of a "

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" (that is, an individual with many varied skills and talents), he was employed as librarian in the

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, where he worked for much of his life. He was a member of the Philiki Etaireia, the underground revolutionary Greek organization working for the liberation of the Greeks from the

. He died in Paris, at the age of 55,Abstracts
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, origin place of his father.

Compositions

Josef Fink 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

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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") {{DEFAULTSORT:Nikolopoulos, Konstantinos 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