The term Ionian (or Heptanese) school of music (Greek: Επτανησιακή Σχολή, literally: "Seven Islands' school") denotes the musical production of a group of Heptanesian composers, whose heyday was from the early 19th century till approximately the 1950s.
[1] Other composers include Dionysius Rodotheatos, Iosif Liveralis, Antonios Liveralis, Georgios Lambiris, Iosif Kaisaris, Spyridon Kaisaris, Dionysios Lavrangas, Eleni Lambiri and later Dionysios Visvardis.
The Music Museum of the Philharmonic Society of Corfu has in its collections several scores by these and other 19th and 20th century Ionian composers.
The major inspiration for the Ionian school was considered to be the Italian musical tradition.
However, as late as the 1820s composers from Ionian Islands succeeded in shaping their own path towards 'national music' initially by using the Greek vernacular language, and later by incorporating folklore elements both from the local tradition and from that of mainland Greece.