Stylianós Vlavianós ( el, Στυλιανός Βλαβιανός), often called Stélios Vlavianós, (born 7 July 1947) is a Greek

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, a member of the Sacem and the

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, among others.

Biography

Vlavianós was born in Athens. His musical apprenticeship began at the age of 3 with his father Stefanos Vlavianos, a musician with the Athens Radio Orchestra (trombonist) and an eclectic theorist. At the age of 10, he entered the Greek National Conservatory in Maria Hatjopoulou's piano class. He was later a student with French composer Pierre Petit, then director of the

École Normale de Musique de Paris The École Normale de Musique de Paris "Alfred Cortot" (ENMP) is a leading conservatoire located in Paris, Île-de-France, France. At the time of the school's foundation in 1919 by Auguste Mangeot, Alfred Cortot. The term ''école normale'' (Engl ...

. The master taught him

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for more than a dozen years before dying prematurely. In the 1970s, he composed songs for artists such as

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, Engelbert Humperdinck, and

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. His song '' Forever and Ever'' was a world success. 1978: He published a book entitled "Guide on Orchestration and Instrumentation". published by Chappel. In New York, he also composed

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pieces with

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(saxophonist and clarinetist, founding member of the band

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). In 2007, French pianist

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, Prix Schumann and teacher at the

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, played some of his pieces for piano. He also composed the music for ''Les Fabuleuses Aventures d'Ulysse'', performed by the Greek tragedian Angela Sonne in several theatres in France. In 1999, the choreographer

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used a large extract from his book ''Impressions of Greece'' for her show ''Le Songe du minotaure''.''Le Songe du minotaure''
on blancali.com

References

Lexique de la Musique Grecque (Takis Kalogeropoulos - Éditions Gialleli - ) pages 374 and 375, in addition to the "Oxford Musical Lexicon". (Éditions Gialleli, 1993).

External links

Discography
on

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