Emile Riadis

Emile Riadis (in), pseudnoyme of Emilios Khu, born with Thessalonique on May 1st 1880, according to the musicologists Fivos Anoyanakis and George Leotsakos, and dead the July 17th 1935 with Thessalonique, is a Greek type-setter.

Formation

Emile Riadis, pianist of formation, began his musical studies with Thessalonique near Dimitri Lallas, disciple Macedonian of Richard Wagner, and started to make known themselves in his birthplace like poet while publishing under the pseudonym of Emilios Eleftheriadis.

After the revolution of the Young person-Turks (1908), Emile Riadis came to continue his musical studies with the Royal Academy of Munich (1908 - 1910) near Felix Mottl, Anton Beer-Walbrunn, Mayer Gschrey, Becht and Stich.

Career

Emile Riadis then went to Paris, where it was strongly influenced by Maurice Ravel, to which it will dedicate later a part for piano in three movements, Hommage to Ravel , that Dimitri Mitropoulos carried out in the first hearing with Athens on February 4th 1925. At the time of his stay in France, which ended in 1915 because of the First World War, the type-setter started to make known his melodies for voice and piano with the concerts.

Of return in Greece, in its birthplace, it was named piano teacher to the Conservatoire National of Thessalonique, of which he was vice-director. Emile Riadis combined his teaching and administrative functions with the composition. However, prematurely dead of disease, its works for orchestra remained new for the majority, so that Emile Riadis is especially known as a melodist.

He is one of the founding members of the Union of the Greek Type-setters (1931). He was decorated with the Large Medal of Greece of the Letters and Arts, decreed by the Greek State (1923).

Selective bibliography

Dimitra Diamantopoulou-Cornejo, melodies for a voice and piano of Emile Riadis: Esthetic aspects between the musics Greek Frenchwoman and at the beginning of the 20th century , Turns, University, 2001, doctorate.
George Leotsakos, " Riadis, Emilios" , in Stanley Sadie (ED.), The New Grove Dictionary off Music and Musicians , London, Mac Milan, 2000 (7th ED.), vol. 21, pp. 313-314.

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Site documented in French

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