Demetrios Lialios Explained

Demetrios Lialios (Δημήτριος Λιάλιος, Patras, 1869 - 13 March 1940) was a Greek composer. He studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München under Ludwig Thuille. He was possibly the first modern Greek composer to write chamber music.^[1] His oeuvre includes an opera, a requiem, 22 orchestral compositions, 14 chamber music works, and 2 compositions for Greek Orthodox liturgy. His Requiem in B minor, titled Missa pro Defunctis is perhaps the first large-scale modern Greek choral work. He also composed lieder in various languages.^[2] Between 1919 and 1935 he was vice-consul of Greece in Munich.

Notes and References

1. Sokol Shupo - Art music in the Balkans 2004 p 62 "Scarcely associable with any group were Dimitrios Lialios (1869-1940), a remarkable composer stylistically moving between Brahms and Max Reger, whose oeuvre was recently revived by conductor Vyron Fidetzis (b 1945), a staunch ..."
2. http://www.musicology.gr/issue010011/fidetzis1en.html Musicology site