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Manuel Chrysaphes
Manuel Doukas Chrysaphes ( el, , ) was the most prominent Byzantine musician of the 15th century. Life and works A singer, composer, and musical theoretician, Manuel Chrysaphes was called "the New Koukouzeles" by his admirer, the Cretan composer John Plousiadinos. He is the author of at least 300 compositions, including nearly full modal cycles of liturgical ordinaries (alleluiaria, cheroubika, and koinonika), kalophonic stichera for various movable and fixed feasts throughout the year, kratemata (wordless compositions), and both simple and kalophonic psalmody for Vespers and Matins. Little is known of his life, except that he held the office of '' lampadarios'' at the Constantinopolitan Court,Not at the Hagia Sophia cathedral, as Chrysanthos of Madytos and others who quoted him, wrote. The "Lampadarios" was a prestigious office of a soloist who replaced or directed the left choir. and received commissions from the last two Byzantine emperors, John VIII Palaiologos and Constant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chrysaphes The Younger
Panagiotes the Protopsaltes or Panagiotes the New Chrysaphes ( el, Παναγιώτης Χρυσάφης ὁ Νέος; c. 1622 – 1682) was a Greek composer, ''protopsaltes'' (first cantor) and poet in Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire. Life and work He served as ''protopsaltes'' of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (about 1655 to 1682) and like the former ''protopsaltes'' Theophanes Karykes he became engaged in a revival of the Byzantine psaltic art or art of chant. As student of the patriarchal ''protopsaltes'' Georgios Raidestinos, his approach was based on the recomposition of the late medieval sticherarion as it was described by Manuel Chrysaphes in his treatise about psaltic art, and the recomposition of the Byzantine '' Anastasimatarion'' was based on the simple psalmody according to the Octoechos. Several manuscripts of the latter have survived since the 17th century and they were usually introduced by a ''Papadike'' treatise, the basic intro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |