Floros, Constantin
Floros, Constantin
Floros, Constantin, distinguished Greek musicologist; b. Thessalonika, Jan. 4, 1930. He studied composition with Uhl and conducting with Swarowsky and Kassowitz at the Vienna Academy of Music, graduating in 1953. He concurrently studied musicology with Schenck at the Univ. of Vienna (Ph.D., 1955, with the diss. C.A. Campioni als Instrumentalkomponist) and then continued his training with Husmann at the Univ. of Hamburg, where he completed his Habilitation in 1961. In 1967 he became ausserplanmassiger prof, and in 1972 prof. of musicology there. P. Petersen ed. a Festschrift in honor of his 60th birthday (Wiesbaden, 1990).
Writings
Universale Neumenkunde (3 vols., Kassel, 1970); Gustav Mahler (3 vols., Wiesbaden, 1977–85); Beethovens Eroica und Prometheus-Musik: Sujet Studien (Wilhelmshaven, 1978); Mozart-Studien I: Zu Mozarts Sinfonik, Opern- und Kirchenmusik (Wiesbaden, 1979); Brahms und Bruckner: Studien zur musikalis-chen Exegetik (Wiesbaden, 1980); Einfuhrung in die Neumenkunde (Wilhelmshaven, 1980); Musik als Botschaft (Wiesbaden, 1989); Alban Berg: Musik als Autobiographie (Wiesbaden, 1992); Gustav Mahler: The Symphonies (Portland, Ore., 1993); Gyorgy Ligeti: Jenseits von Avantgarde und Postmoderne (Vienna, 1996); Johannes Brahms, “frei aber einsam:” Eine Leben fur eine poetische Musik (Zürich, 1997).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire