Vangelis

Person · Open Library

Works

11

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Film & TV

Sound · Volos, Thessaly, Greece

Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (Greek: Ευάγγελος Οδυσσέας Παπαθανασίου, pronounced [eˈvaɲɟelos oðiˈseas papaθanaˈsi.u]; 29 March 1943 – 17 May 2022), known professionally as Vangelis (/væŋˈɡɛlɪs/ vang-GHEL-iss; Greek: Βαγγέλης, pronounced [vaɲˈɟelis]), was a Greek musician, composer, and producer of electronic, progressive, ambient, and classical orchestral music. He composed the Academy…

Known for

• Milva, diva per sempre — Himself2024
• Vangelis: The Interviews — Self2016
• Vangelis and the Journey To Ithaka — Self2013
• Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made the Movies — Self - Interviewed Guest2013
• Vangelis – Mythodea (Music for the NASA Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey) — Himself2002
• ECHO-Verleihung — Self1992
• Vangelis – Eureka (Live at Rotterdam, 1991) — Himself1991
• Georges Mathieu or the Fury of Being — Self1971
• 4-3-2-1 Hot and Sweet — Self1966
• Discorama — Self1959

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Greece

Active from

1943

Active to

2022

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1,371,352

Total plays

35,669,716

Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (March 29, 1943 - May 17, 2022), known professionally as Vangelis, was a Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, new age, jazz, and orchestral music. He is best known for his Academy Award-winning score for the film Chariots of Fire, composing scores for the films Blade Runner, Missing, Antarctica, 1492: Conquest of Paradise, and Alexander, and the use of his music in the PBS documentary Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan. <a href="https://www.l

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Academic profile · OpenAlex

Works

1,903

Cited by

111,496

ORCID

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0548-9189

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Do entrepreneurship programmes raise entrepreneurial intention of science and engineering students? The effect of learning, inspiration and resources

   · 2007 · cited 1,510x

2. Review on solving the inverse problem in EEG source analysis

   · 2008 · cited 939x

3. Treatment and Prognosis for Patients With Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma

   · 2014 · cited 702x

4. Regional Drought Assessment Based on the Reconnaissance Drought Index (RDI)

   · 2006 · cited 701x

5. Agriculture and food animals as a source of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria

   · 2015 · cited 612x

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Quotes

• “Music for me is life, I stay in my studio until ten or eleven at night and I record every day. Not for money or for albums - I just compose music.”
• “I function as a channel through which music emerges from the chaos of noise.”
• “in Italian: Non mi considero un musicista, piuttosto un radar pronto a captare le sinfonie che arrivano dal cielo. E' stato cosi da quando avevo quattro anni e spero che continui per sempre. Nel momento in cui compongo, qualunque ingrediente può andare bene, il problema sta nelle proporzioni che devono essere armoniche. E' cóme il lavoro degli architetti, non si inventa mai nulla.”
• “in English: I do not consider myself a musician, rather a radar ready to pick up the symphonies coming from the sky. It's been like that since I was four years old and I hope it will continue forever. When I compose, any ingredient can be good, the problem lies in the proportions that must be harmonized. It's like the work of architects, you never invent anything.”
• “Mythology, science, space exploration, these are subjects that have fascinated me since my early childhood. And they were always connected somehow with the music I write.”
• “I understand the world through music and I believe that music shapes the universe. Mankind has always had a sense of wonder about space, has always been curious. It's something that's implanted in us. It's natural to want to travel and discover. It is, always has been, and is always going to be like this. We are space.”

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Key facts

Musical artist.name

Vangelis

Musical artist.native_name

Βαγγέλης

Musical artist.native_name_lang

el

Musical artist.image

VangelisElGrecopremiereDE2.jpg

Musical artist.landscape

yes

Musical artist.caption

Vangelis at the premiere of El Greco in 2007

Musical artist.background

non_vocal_instrumentalist

Musical artist.death_place

Paris, France

Musical artist.birth_place

Agria, Greece

Musical artist.years_active

1963–2022

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Wikidata facts

Image

Vangelis, 26 July 2012.jpg

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