MUSICOLOGY
(Musicología)
Review of Theory and Praxis of Music
Ion Zottos (1944-2010)
He
was born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1944, and studied English, Music and
Musicology in Greece, Great Britain and the U.S.A. – M.A. and Ph.D. (1977)
at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. He dealt with music
composition and music critique, he worked for several years as a radio
producer for the Third Programme of E.R.T., he was a founding member of the
journal Musicologia (since 1985) and
also a member of the Greek Composers’ Union and of the International
Siegfried Wagner Society. Since 1991, as a Professor at the Music Department
of the University of Athens, he promoted especially the research fields of
history of music (from Renaissance to 19th century), theory of several music
genres and forms (foremost of opera and chamber music), as well as comparative
theory of literature and music. His publications
include the books Church Music of the Baroque Era. Claudio
Monteverdi: The Mass and Vespers of 1610 (Athens 1996), The
Early String Quartet, ca. 1760-1790 (Athens 1996), and Humanism and the
Birth of Opera (Athens 2003) – all of them in Greek.