Notis Mavrodis: The Elegy of the Great Musician

The tragedy caused shock in the field of Greek music death From the great guitarist Nutty Mavrodi Who is the He was fatally wounded on Tuesday night (1/3). while he was doing work on his house in Pelion.

As reported by local media, prof Notis Mavrodis He was killed when he fell from a height of three meters, which resulted in fatal head injuries.

According to the same information, the 77-year-old musician put a piece of wood on the railing of his yard and stepped on it, perhaps to fix something, but he either lost his balance or got dizzy and fell into the void. .

Noti Mavroudis was first seen by his wife, who was also the one who called an EKAV ambulance in Cukorava, where the musician’s home was. Billion But the rescuers who arrived at the scene could not do anything because he had already breathed his last.

He also declared his son a guardIn a simple message posted on Facebook by the family of the deceased musician, the civil funeral of Nutty Mavroudis will take place in the next few days in Khalandri.

Social media is already filled with emotional farewells to the great Nikos Mavroudis from people who knew him personally or worked with him.

Who is Notis Mavroudis?

Born in 1945. He spent the first two years of his life in prison next to his mother, who was a political prisoner. In 1958, he started guitar lessons at the National Conservatory of Music with teacher Dimitris Faba and received his diploma in 1969 with honors.

In 1970 he settled in Italy, where he was appointed chair of classical guitar at the Scuola Ciciva di Milano, where he taught until 1975. In 1970 he also attended the courses of the Academy of Santiago de Compostela in Spain with José Tomás.

In 1975 he settled permanently in Athens and from that year began teaching classical guitar at the National Conservatory. In 1975, 1977 and 1979 he gave a concert at the Classical Guitar Festival in Esztergom, Hungary. In 1978 he participated in the International Festival of Political Song in East Berlin and in the XI World Youth Festival in Havana, Cuba. As a composer and soloist he has given many concerts in many countries (Greece, Italy, Finland, Switzerland, Germany, Hungary, Austria, Cuba).

As a professor at the National Conservatory of Athens, he had as students many famous artists such as Manolis Androulidakis, Sokratis Malamas, Panagiotis Margaris, Giorgos Melas, Lambros Dosikos, Dimitris Sotiropoulos, etc. Since 1994 he has held the duties of Head of the Department of Literature and Cultural Arts and since 1995 he has been the Artistic Director of the Patras International Festival.

Notis Mavroudis entered the discography in 1964 with the songs “Akri den hai oi vala” and “Ta yortina sou forese”, with lyrics by Yiannis Kakoulidis and performance by George Zographos. In 1966 he wrote music for theater and cinema.

In 1968, he performed the music of Odysseus Aelitis’s Song of Heroism and Lamentation for the Lost Lieutenant of Albania, a popular oratorio for voice choir and orchestra.

In 1976, an album of Theofilos’ paintings was released with lyrics by Akos Daskalopoulos, inspired by Theofilos’ paintings. In 1977, he set poems by Manos Hadjidakis to music on the album Child of the Earth.

In 1985, the album Eros anikate mahan se poesis, written by Ilias Petropoulos, was released.
Since 1990 he has written songs for the Children’s Choir, and collaborates with the Dimitris Tebaldo Children’s Choir.

In 1998 she presented discs with music for the theatrical performances “Oliver Twist” (with his music and songs for the performance “Thiasso 81”) and “Iphigenia on Avlide” (with music and 3 songs, for the performance of the tragedy of the same name) from the group “Thymelis”).

Between 1999-2008, together with his student Panagiotis Margaris, he recorded the award-winning series Cafe de l’art, in which they arranged well-known songs from the Greek and international repertoire for two guitars.

In the same spirit, in 2018 he launched the Café Latino chain with Giorgos Tossikian.
In 2019, IANOS published the work “Agrypno feggari”, Greek poets listening to music from the 19th and 20th centuries.

In 1999, the album Luna Park was released, with the children’s choir of Dimitris Typaldos and the participation of Giorgos Dalaras. In 2002, he composed songs for women’s voices, on the album In Echo of Love, in which such big names as Harris Alexio, Glykeria, Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Elie Paspala participated.

In 2006, together with Elias Katsoulis, they wrote songs that “tell” the stories of great Greek artists (Gr. Bithikotsis, St. Carte Postale album.

Notis Mavroudis has collaborated with poets such as Odysseas Elytis, Yiannis Kakoulidis, Ilias Petropoulos, Akos Daskalopoulos, composer Manos Hatzidakis, singers such as Thanasis Gaifillias, George Zografos, Arleta, Popi Asteriitalis, Melena Véléné, Venezano, Petro Bandi, Costa Thumides, Stamati Kronaki, Tania Tsanaclidu, Manoli Mizia, Harris Alexio, George Dallara, Glykeria, Pantele Thalassino, Eli Paspala, Anastasia Mutsatsu, etc.

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