{"id":5466,"date":"2026-05-27T11:25:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T11:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greekablessingindisguise.com\/solomos-mantzaros\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T09:11:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T09:11:03","slug":"solomos-mantzaros","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/greekablessingindisguise.com\/en\/solomos-mantzaros\/","title":{"rendered":"Solomos-Mantzaros"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"5466\" class=\"elementor elementor-5466 elementor-5307\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4191e53 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"4191e53\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d3e9572 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"d3e9572\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Nikolaos Mantzaros Sets the \u201cHymn to Liberty\u201d to Music<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-973b998 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"973b998\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fe1b817 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"fe1b817\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/greekablessingindisguise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Picture23-2-1024x683.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-5465\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greekablessingindisguise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Picture23-2-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/greekablessingindisguise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Picture23-2-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/greekablessingindisguise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Picture23-2-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/greekablessingindisguise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Picture23-2.png 1269w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a90584c e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"a90584c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cd4284d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cd4284d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"p1\">The Corfiot composer Nikolaos Mantzaros proceeded with the first musical setting of the <i>Hymn to Liberty<\/i>. According to testimonies, he had already begun the work before the poet arrived in Corfu. His student, Spyridon De Viasis, writes that the first setting was composed \u201cin a folk style, in a most beautiful choral form for two tenors and two basses, with piano accompaniment.\u201d<\/p><p class=\"p1\">Mantzaros would set the <i>Hymn<\/i> to music more than once, collaborating closely with the poet.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">\u201cMany times we heard Mantzaros say,\u201d writes De Viasis, \u201cthat whenever, during the composition of the two settings of the Hymn, he would play a passage before Solomos, he would stand before him inspired, placing the notes upon the paper, and then strike them upon the piano, singing; and the poet would leap with enthusiasm. He too would sing together with his musician friend. Seeing that the music was worthy of the poetry \u2014 that the notes interpreted the very idea of the poem \u2014 the poet would dissolve into tears from emotion.\u201d<\/p><p class=\"p1\">At that moment, fired by ecstasy, the composer himself, even more inspired, continued writing.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">\u201cSo great,\u201d Mantzaros would continue, \u201cwas our emotion at that moment, that we felt we were no longer upon the earth, and weeping, one embraced the other. These were tears born, on the one hand, from the exhilaration of the work\u2019s success, and on the other\u2026 from the awareness that art had succeeded, fittingly, in hymning the freedom of the reborn fatherland, sanctified by the blood of so many holy heroes.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikolaos Mantzaros Sets the \u201cHymn to Liberty\u201d to Music The Corfiot composer Nikolaos Mantzaros proceeded with the first musical setting of the Hymn to Liberty. According to testimonies, he had already begun the work before the poet arrived in Corfu. 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