Konstantinos Nikolopoulos (composer)
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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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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)


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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