Abstracts of issue 20 (2011)
A
tribute to Agamemnon Mourtzopoulos (1922-2005)
This
brief tribute contains, among others, three papers by the guest
of honour, the composer, musicologist and philosopher Agamemnon Mourtzopoulos.
The first of them is the eminent “Reflections on Manolis Kalomiris’ Third
Symphony”, a text in which also extensively refers the next article by
Apostolos Kostios. Mourtzopoulos’ second text published here is known only
in a few friends of his; this is a stylistic sample of his special lingual
aptitude and satirical vein that rises from a critical spirit, accustomed to
music and dialogic literature. The third paper by Mourtzopoulos is a lecture
of his in the honorary “Antiochos Evangelatos’ evening” that took place
in March 3, 1992. Next comes Olympia Psychopedis-Frangou’s article entitled
“Agamemnon Mourtzopoulos’
essays on music critique and music aesthetics in the frame of musicology”,
which refers to papers kindly given to the author by Mary Mourtzopoulou, the
constant helpmate of the vanished. In conclusion, Ritsa Frangou-Kikilia also
elucidates Mourtzopoulos’ analytical interpretative strength in relation to
philological research in one pioneer study of his on Palamas and Sikelianos.