Canto Olympico
composer: Mikis Theodorakis
text writer: Dimitra Manda
Oratorio
Premiere: 1992 Barcelona und Karthago
Instrumentation: tenor, mixed choir, piano and orchestra
Publisher: Schott Music
Duration: 45' 0''
Year of composition: 1991
Edition: score
196 Pages - Full-cloth binding
Order number: ER 1
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Description
‘In 1990 the International Olympic Committee commissioned me to compose a symphonic work for the 1992 Olympic games in Barcelona (1992). I thought that content and form of a piece of music which is dedicated to millions of sports fans all over the world should be as simple as possible and should resemble a song, because song is at the root of the musical culture in modern societies. Therefore the “Canto Olympico“, which is what I ended up calling the work, is a symphonic oratorio in the form of a suite in six movements. As in the “Canto General“ the choir plays an important role.’
(Mikis Theodorakis, Athens, 1992)
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