Historico-musicological Aspects of K. A. Psachos's Archive

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present some historico-musicological aspects of the archive of K. A. Psachos. It brings to light some of the obscure or lesser-known aspects of his biography, his oeuvre and his general activities following his three major life events: his upbringing, education and vocational training in Istanbul, his relocation and professional establishment in Athens and the realization of a lifetime goal, the construction of a Byzantine Music pipe organ in Munich. The article is illustrated with digitized archive material and supplemented by transcriptions of K. A. Psachos’s handwritten Byzantine Notation, epistles and notes in Greek.