George Lambelet, a Representative of the Greek National Music School
George Lambelet, a Representative of the Greek National Music School

Summary/Abstract: The author summarizes George Lambelet’s views on Greek National Music, as they were expressed in two articles: The National Music (1901) published in the journal “Panathinaia” and Nationalism in Art and the Greek Folk Music (1928), edited in a series of feuilletons. According to Lambelet, Greek composers should combine the features of folk-song with the means of universal music, but following their own aesthetic principles. Significant for the harmonization of the folk melody are the Greek scales. In order to exemplify these views, Lambelet’s symphonic poem The Feast (The Village Fair, 1907) is analyzed, the national character being expressed by the folk-like melodies, the rhythmical patterns and the Greek scales.

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