11 Facts About Pavlos Carrer

Pavlos Carrer 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.

Pavlos Carrer was a descendant of a noble family of Zante.

Pavlos Carrer studied music in his birthplace with the Italian teachers Giuseppe Cricca, Francesco Marangoni and possibly in Corfu with Nikolaos Mantzaros.

In 1850, in the peak of the Risorgimento, the young Pavlos Carrer moved to Milan, the operatic capital of Europe, in order to specialize in his music studies.

Pavlos Carrer composed the music score for Tomaso Casati's ballet Bianca di Belmonte, produced at the 'Teatro della Canobbiana'.

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Pavlos Carrer worked as a conductor and impresario in local theatres, taught music and married the talented soprano and interpreter of his works, Isabella Giatra.

Pavlos Carrer never saw this last opera on stage, for it was first presented in Athens 115 years after its composition by the Greek National Opera.

Finally, Pavlos Carrer left a legacy of two unfinished projects, the national style three-act opera Lambros il brulottiere and the operetta Conte Spourgitis [Count Sparrow] .

Pavlos Carrer was one of the most popular and widely performed composers in 19th-century Greece, while achieving a considerable reputation in Italy.

Pavlos Carrer followed closely the developments in European opera, lent an ear to artistic modernism and constantly updated his compositional practice.

Pavlos Carrer played a leading role in the most characteristic evolution in the field of Greek art music that took place in the Ionian islands of the mid-19th century and concerned the first systematic effort of creating a national opera.