The cultivation of musical modernism in the wider sense of the term, as a personal creative process (composition), as a reproduction of the work of art (performance, recording), and as a means of education (addressed to both audiences and critics), accords with interrelated features of the artistic personality of Dimitri Mitropoulos (1896-1960), consecutively represented throughout his career. His works, coming from the 1920s, constitute the earliest examples of Greek prewar modernism, assimilating elements of current European musical trends and evoking the personal creative character and the artistic uniqueness of their begetter. The main objectives of this book are to outline, classify and report the origins and features of Greek musical modernism in the 1920s as an integral part of Greek art music and Greek music history, to specify Mitropoulos's pioneering steps along this path, and to provide evidence and facts of his strong affiliation to prominent European exponents of modernism like Arnold Schoenberg. Such findings serve as incentives for a broader, international appreciation of Mitropoulos's life and work, and as a starting point for further dissemination of current Greek musicological studies on prewar and postwar Greek musical modernism to the international academic, musicological, and musical community. (From the publisher)

INDEX

• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS - LIST OF TABLES (& DIAGRAMS)
• LIST OF MUSICAL EXAMPLES - TABLE OF GREEK NAMES
• ABBREVIATIONS - SYMBOLS - PREFACE (BY KATY ROMANOU)
• INTRODUCTION - THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT, MODERNISM(S), AND MITROPOULOS
• GREECE, 1870 - 1940
• History and politics - Fine arts
• Letters - Musical life in Athens
• The Greek National Music School
• INTRODUCTION AND PERSPECTIVES OF MUSICAL MODERNISM IN THE 1920s AND '30s
• DIMITRI MITROPOULOS (1896 - 1960)
• A life in music - Catalog of works
• Mitropoulos's works in the 1920s: an overview
• THE WORKS
• THE INTRODUCTION OF ATONALITY: PASSACAGLIA, INTERMEZZO E FUGA (1924)
• OF POETRY AND (ATONAL) MUSIC: SIKELIANOS, CAVAFY AND MITROPOULOS (1923-25)
• THE INTRODUCTION OF DODECAPHONY: OSTINATA IN TRE PARTI (1926-27)
• REFORMING THE VOCABULARY: CONCERTO GROSSO (1928)
• POSTWAR ECHOES OF PREWAR MODERNISM
• THE SCHOENBERG - MITROPOULO CORRESPONDENCE (1945-1951)
• Mitropoulos in America and the Second Viennese School
• The letters. Indexing and commentary
• APPENDIX
• THE ORIGINAL LETTERS OF THE SCHOENBERG - MITROPOULOS CORRESPONDENCE (1945-1951)
• EPILOGUE - BIBLIOGRAPHY