Olympos (musician)

Olympos (* and † around 750 BC) was a legendary Greek singer and musician who was said to have played around 750 BC. . AD lived.

Life

It is said to come from Mysia or Phrygia , which is supposed to symbolize or personify the penetration of music from Asia Minor into Greece . He is credited with inventing the aulos , a kind of double oboe , and for having introduced solo playing for this instrument as well.

The " mythical " singer and musician was "a pupil of Marsyas in flute playing and ancestor of a Phrygian dynasty in which the art of flute playing was hereditary. This included the Olympos who trained the Auletic nomos in the 7th century BC ." Under "auletic nomoi" are to be understood certain types of musical presentation with the aulos or the corresponding music presentations themselves. In addition, Olympos is considered the inventor of the older Enharmonics . In contrast to Terpander, Olympos represents those forces and dimensions of ancient Greek music, "which defy strict classification in music theory."

"The news about this figure standing between myth and history is so indistinct [...] that the pseudo-Plutarchic musical dialogue, for example, assumes an older and a younger Olympus."

literature

Wilibald Gurlitt , Carl Dahlhaus (ed.): Riemann Music Lexicon. In three volumes and two supplementary volumes. Olympos from Mysia. 12th completely revised edition. 2. Person part L – ZB Schotts-Söhne, Mainz 1961, p. 342 (first edition: 1882).
Philip Smith: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology Volume 3, pages 25–26, Little, Brown & Co, Boston 1870, online: [1]

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Riemann Musiklexikon, Olympos from Mysia, 1961.
↑ http://www.zeno.org/Meyers-1905/A/Olympos+%5B2%5D
↑ Wilibald Gurlitt, Carl Dahlhaus (Ed.): Riemann Musik-Lexikon. In three volumes and two supplementary volumes. Nomos. 12th completely revised edition. 3. Material part. B. Schotts-Sons, Mainz 1967, p. 636–637 (first edition: 1882).

personal data
SURNAME	Olympos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Olympos from Mysia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Phrygian musician
DATE OF BIRTH	8th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	8th century BC Chr.

[:0-1] Riemann Musiklexikon, Olympos from Mysia, 1961.

[2] ttp://www.zeno.org/Meyers-1905/A/Olympos+%5B2%5D

[3] Wilibald Gurlitt, Carl Dahlhaus (Ed.): Riemann Musik-Lexikon. In three volumes and two supplementary volumes. Nomos. 12th completely revised edition. 3. Material part. B. Schotts-Sons, Mainz 1967, p. 636–637 (first edition: 1882).