Iannis Xenakis
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Iannis Xenakis

Type
Solo artist
Styles
contemporary classical music, electronic music
Fans
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Next date in Barcelona: 17 January 2027 at Sala 2 Oriol Martorell.

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Latest album
Medea / Nuits / Knephas / Serment / A Colone (1998)
Born
1922 · Brăila
Origin
Greece
Label
Philips Records

About — The artist

Iannis Xenakis (Γιάννης Ξενάκης, also transliterated in French as Yannis Xénakis; Brăila, Romania, 29 May 1922 – Paris, 4 February 2001) was a composer and civil engineer of Greek descent who became a French national and spent much of his life in Paris. A prominent 20th-century composer, he is considered a pioneer of electronic music and the creator of stochastic music. Over the course of his career he composed approximately 150 works for orchestra, instrumental ensembles, voice, stage works or electroacoustic music.

Text adapted from the Wikipedia article “Iannis Xenakis” (es), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Discography

  • Metastasis / Pithoprakta / Eonta 1965
  • Syrmos / Polytope / Medea 1969
  • Electro-Acoustic Music 1970
  • Persephassa 1971
  • Persepolis 1972
  • Synaphai / Aroura / Antikhthon 1976
  • Xenakis: Evryali / Herma / Messiaen: Quatre études de rythme 1976
  • Cendrées / Jonchaies / Nomos gamma 1983
  • ST/4 / Dikhthas / Ikhoor / Embellie / Kottos / Mikka / Mikka S 1983
  • Messiaen: Cinq Rechants / Xenakis: Nuits 1984
  • Die 12 Cellisten der Berliner Philharmoniker Vol. 1 1985
  • Contemporary Piano Music 1986
  • The Fantastic Harpsichord 1987
  • Pléïades 1987
  • Nørgård: I Ching / Xenakis: Psappha / Gudmundsen-Holmgreen: Triptykon 1988
  • Xenakis: Pléiades / Ishii: Concertante 1989
  • Pléiades / Psappha 1990
  • Palimpsest / Épéi / Dikhthas / Akanthos 1990
  • Oresteïa 1990
  • Naama / À l'île de Gorée / Khoaï / Komboï 1990
  • Idmen / Pléïades 1992
  • Phlegra / Jalons / Keren / Nomos Alpha / Thalleïn 1992
  • 高橋悠治リアルタイム3 クセナキス・マセダ 1992
  • Œuvres pour quatuor à cordes et trio de percussions 1994
  • Aïs / Gendy 3 / Taurhiphanie / Thalleïn 1994
  • Brant / Scelsi / Wolpe / Xenakis / Cage / Glass / Feldman 1995
  • Ensemble Music 1 1996
  • Xenakis & Varèse 1997
  • Kraanerg 1997
  • Medea / Nuits / Knephas / Serment / A Colone 1998

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