Yannis Papaioannou (Composer)
Born: 6th January 1910, Kavala, Greece
Died: 19th May 1989, Athens,Greece
Nationality: Greek
Yiannis Papaioannou was a Greek composer and teacher of the Modern Era. He studied piano with Marika Laspopoulou and composition with Alekos Kontis at the Hellenic Conservatory in Athens (1922–34), as well as the piano and orchestration with Emilios Riadis in Thessaloniki (1928–29).
In 1949 he visited major European music centres on a UNESCO grant and became familiar with new developments in music composition. In particular, in Paris he attended Arthur Honegger's class. Between 1951 and 1961 he taught music at an Athens high school and from 1953 he was professor of counterpoint and composition at the Hellenic Conservatory.
Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiannis_Papaioannou
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- A Poet at the Sea (1)
- Associations (1)
- Candles (1)
- Corsair Dance No. 1 (1)
- Erotic (1)
- Farewell Roses (1)
- Fourteen Children’s Portraits (excerpts) (1)
- In the Depth of the Looking Glass (2)
- Island Dance (1)
- Oraculum (1)
- Préludes (24) (1)
- Preludes I, II and III (1)
- Rhythms and Colours (1)
- Scherzo (1)
- Serenade (1)
- Suite: Vivace (1)