The Maiden and Death1: A Comparative Reading of the Homonymous Compositions of Nikos Skalkottas and Antiochos Evangelatos as Narrations of Greek Tradition
The Maiden and Death1: A Comparative Reading of the Homonymous Compositions of Nikos Skalkottas and Antiochos Evangelatos as Narrations of Greek Tradition

Summary/Abstract: Nikos Skalkottas’s (1904–1949) first ballet score, The Maiden and Death, was written in 1938. It is one of his most important tonal works, its plot being derived from a well-known folk-poem with the same title. Antiochos Evangelatos’s (1903–1981) homonymous symphonic ballad, written three years later, uses verses from the same folk-poem. The present comparative study attempts to analyze aesthetic aspects of these two works which are viewed, moreover, as aesthetic entities in music history of a wider cultural background.

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