Pavlos Carrer

Pavlos Carrer

Pavlos Carrer (also Paolo Carrer; Greek: Παύλος Καρρέρ; 12 May 1829 – 7 June 1896) was a Greek composer, one of the leaders of the Ionian art music school and the first to create national operas and national songs on Greek plots, Greek librettos and verses, as well as melodies inspired by the folk and the urban popular musical tradition of modern Greece.[1]

  1. ^ Meyerbeer, Giacomo (1999). The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: The years of celebrity, 1850-1856. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. p. 412. ISBN 978-0-8386-3844-6. Pavlos Carrer ( 1829-96 ), the most important Greek composer of the nineteenth century before Spyridon Samaras, was noted for his operas on historical figures and events surrounding the revolt against Turkish rule.