Background
Peter the Byzantine was born near Constantinople in Yeniköy of Bosphorus.
Peter the Byzantine was born near Constantinople in Yeniköy of Bosphorus.
He completed both known books of Peter the Peloponnesian, the Anastasimatarion, composing the missing Kekragaria with the incidental Stichologia, and the Heirmologion of Katavasies, adding Heirmoses standards for several holidays.
There, he began studying music and quickly became a virtuoso of the pandouris and the Arabian flageolet (ney). Peter fled to Kherson, hence his name "the Fugitive", and from there to Iași, where he lived until his death in 1808.