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GREEK MUSIC ARCHIVE

Since the Institute started its operation, it has been concerned with the documentation of the Greek Musical Heritage and of Greek Music Life. Through the digitization program, the archive got a different status and administers today, apart from IEMA’s own archive, the following material:

Personal archives of 60 important composers of contemporary music:
Michalis Adamis, Minas Alexiadis, Theodoros Antoniou, Stefanos Vassiliadis, Yiannis Vlachopoulos, Haris Vrondos, Stefanos Gazouleas, Konsatantia Gourzi, Michalis Grigoriou, Anargyros Deniozos, Dimitris Dragatakis, Antiohos Evangelatos, Savvas Zannas, Yiorgos Zervos, Yiorgos Kazasoglou, Alexandros Kalogeras, Manolis Kalomoiris, Vangelis Katsoulis, Vassilis Kokkas, Panayiotis Kokoras, Periklis Koukos, Yiorgos Koumendakis, Argyris Kounadis, Yiorgos Kouroupos, Konstantinos Kydoniatis, Nikos Kypourgos, Yiannis Konstantinidis, Michalis Lapidakis, Markos Lekkas, Konstantinos Lygnos, Dimitris Maragopoulos, Yiannis Markopoulos, Thanos Mikroutsikos, Andreas Mniestris, Kostas Moschos, Alkis Baltas, Minas Bourboudakis, Kostas Nikitas, Dimitris Nikolaou, Charis Xanthoudakis, Xanthoulis Nikos, Yannis Xenakis, Alekos Xenos, Alkis Panayiotopoulos, Iosif Papadakis, Dimitris Papadimitriou, Nikos Platyrarhos, Lena Platonos, Vassilis Riziotis, Nikiforos Rotas, Christos Samaras, Yiorgos Sisilianos, Nikos Skalkotas, Kyriakos Sfetsas, Nestor Taylor, Dimitris Terzakis, Michalis Travlos, Kalliopi Tsoupaki, Nikos Fylaktos, Iakovos Chaliasas, Yiannis Christou.

The Greek Music Archive includes important material from the following categories:

Newer and Contemporary Music

Recordings of concerts of contemporary music
Archives of organisations (Greek Composers’ Union, Athens Conservatory, National Orchestra of Greece in Athens a.o.)
Archives of Musicologists (Fidetzis, Tamvakos, Leotsakos, Kostios a.o.)

Traditional Music

IEMA Archive of Traditional Music Recordings
Archives of organisations (Lyceum of Greek Women, Folklore Institution of Peloponnisos, Museum of Popular Musical instruments etc.)
Archives of collectors and ethnomusicologists (Papadakis, Dionyssopoulos, Kavakopoulos, Kalyviotis, Bazianos, Broufos and Liavas)

Urban and Art Song

Archive of Rebetiko Songs of Pantelis Kavakopoulos
Archive of Greek Songs of Rinio Papanikola etc.