Nikolaos Docheiarites, Priest-Monk in Mount Athos (1781-1846?): an Exegete and Teacher of Ecclesiastical Music
Nikolaos Docheiarites, Priest-Monk in Mount Athos (1781-1846?): an Exegete and Teacher of Ecclesiastical Music

Summary/Abstract: Nikephoros-Nikolaos Docheiarites (born in Omvriaki Domokos, 1781, died in Karyes of Mount Athos, 1846?) was a major figure of Mount Athos monasticism in the 19th century. As a priest-monk and a chanter, undertaking administrating duties in the frame of Mount Athos community, he was distinguished in the field of 19th century ecclesiastical music as a productive scribe of manuscript codices of ecclesiastical music, as an accomplished teacher of chanting art, as a composer and, most of all, as a talented and erudite exegete of Old Musical Notation. Nikolaos Docheiarites went down in history as one of the three Athonite exegetes who transcribed chants from the Old Notation to the New Notational System (established in 1814 by virtue of the Reform of the “Three Teachers”). Nikolaos expanded his activities in Slavic area, adapting the melodies of Greek hymns to the Slavonic liturgical text. The archives of the Docheiariou Monastery and his manuscript codices allow us to get a comprehensive understanding of his life and his musical work.

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