Vangelis, the Greek musical genius whose output ranged from progressive and avant-garde rock music to memorable film scores, was also an early adopter of the synthesiser as a serious musical instrument . He had a lifelong fascination and engagement with music connected to space exploration and astronomy. He died at the age of 79, on 17 May.said, “Born Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou, Vangelis grew up in the Greek town of Agria. He started playing the piano at 4 and never took a formal lesson.
Known worldwide as Vangelis, the composer/musician began tinkering on the family piano as a small child but the child barely had any formal musical education, and throughout his composing life he could neither read nor write musical scores. For some, that is not the hindrance it might otherwise have been. After all, songwriter Irving Berlin couldn’t do either as well and the extent of his oeuvre includes hundreds of hits and a clutch of Broadway shows.
Well, almost, that is. There actually is a fascinating lineage that goes back for hundreds of years. The Yamaha company explains that the modern synthesiser was a kind of rebirth of the extensive capabilities of the pipe organ, an instrument most effectively and originally exploited by Johann Sebastian Bach, nearly three hundred years ago.
Vangelis’ nearly hypnotic but discordant melodies, and all his unworldly sonic landscapes made the soundtrack a cult classic, years before the film had achieved a similar status. Amazingly, this was true even though the soundtrack was not commercially available as a recording until a decade after the film had been released.
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