Archives

Host Organization:

Music Library of Greece Lilian Voudouri – The Friends of Music Society

Website:

https://www.mmb.org.gr/el/arheio-ellinikis-moysikis

Contact:

tel. +30 210-7282775 and +30 210-7282571

Vasilissis Sofias Avenue and Kokkali Street, Athens 11521                                   

e-mail: library@megaron.gr

Archive Supervisor:

Valia Vraka (valvraka@megaron.gr) 

The Greek Music Archive belongs to the Lillian Voudouri Music Library – The Friends of Music Society. It has 40 Archives of Composers, Artists and Teachers, which are now classified as historical, since they are no longer of an official nature but are used for research purposes. The majority of them consist of original texts and manuscript scores, as well as printed matter, recordings, programmes, newspaper cuttings, photographs, correspondence, etc. The archive also contains printed material, such as the collection of books and magazines, which currently exceeds 8,000 titles and aims to be the source for the establishment of a complete Greek music bibliography. It consists of books on music and other related fine arts, such as ancient Greek art, Byzantine art, Greek theatre, Greek painting, Greek cinema, etc. Similarly, the printed scores of Greek works constitute the largest part of the collection, which includes works by past and contemporary composers, such as M. Kalomiris, M. Hadjidakis, G. Christou, Th. Antoniou etc. The Greek Music Archive has over 5,000 titles of audiovisual material, such as CDs, DVDs, VHSs, audio cassettes, 78', 45' & 33' RPM records, reels, etc. These are recent or older releases, amateur or professional recordings and video recordings, mainly of art music, but also of folk and Byzantine music. The archive also includes rare editions of books and scores, manuscripts of Greek composers, correspondence, photographs and personal items of important personalities in Greek musical reality. The archive offers a wealth of material on all genres of Greek music.

Sources about the Archive:

· Vraka Valia, «To Archeio Ellinikis Mousikis, tis Mousikis Vivliothikis ‘‘Lilian Voudouri’», in El. Papalexiou (ed.), Dimiourgika Archeia os Zontana Topia Mnimis stin Psifiaki Epochi, Fagotto Publications, Athens 2022, p. 135-146.

· Merakos Stefania – Boumpous Giorgos, «I elliniki mousiki mesa apo ta optikoakoustika archeia tis Mousikis Vivliothikis ‘Lilian Voudouri’: prokliseis kai lyseis». Lecture at the conference «Optikoakoustika Archeia: zitimata diacheirisis kai prosvasis» (29/10/2019) (https://www.blod.gr/lectures/i-elliniki-mousiki-mesa-apo-ta-optikoakoustika-arheia-tis-mousikis-bibliothikis-lilian-boudouri-prokliseis-kai-lyseis/)

· Merakos Stefania, «I Mousiki Vivliothiki ‘‘Lilian Voudouri’’, oi krymmenoi thisavroi tis kai ta mesa gia tin anadeixi tous », in El. Papalexiou (ed.), Dimiourgika Archeia os Zontana Topia Mnimis stin Psifiaki Epochi, Fagotto Publications, Athens 2022, p. 123-134

Keywords:

Α
Ainian Alexandros, Antoniou Theodoros, archontorebetiko, art music

Β 
byzantine chant, byzantine music

C

Christou Giannis, contemporary music

Ε

ecclesiastic music, electro-acoustic music

G

Greek National Music School

H

Hadjidakis Manos

Κ
Kalomoiris Manolis

L
lyric theatre

Μ
modernism, music for cinema, music for theatre, music technology, musical theatre

Ο
opera, operetta

P
pop music, pop-art music, Πρωτοπορία

R

romantic comedy

S

song cycle

U

urban folk music

Composer’s private archives:
Α
Aryvas Dion, Astrinidis Nikolaos

D
Δούνιας Μίνως

G

Giannoulopoulos Kostas

Ι
Ioannidis Georgios

Κ
Kalafati Litsia, Kalogridou Maria, Kamarados Nileas, Karailias Efangelos, Kolasi Irma, Konstantinidis Ntinos, Korinthios Zosef, Kounadis Argyris, Kyriakou Rena

L
Lialios Dimitrios

Μ
Mantikian Arnta, Metaxa Argyro, Michailidis Timoleon, Mouzakis Giorgos

Ν
Nousias Giannis

P
Papadopoulos Giannis, Petridis Petros, Platon Georgios, Poniridis Georgios

T

Theodorakis Mikis

V 
Varvoglis Marios

Ζ
Zachariou Nikos