Mikis theodorakis biography definition

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Greek music composer.

Born in 1925 in Chios, Mikis Theodorakis spent his childhood in Peloponnese where he was acquainted with folk music and the music of the Greek Orthodox Church.

During the Nazi occupation, he registered at the conservatory to study composition and at the same time he joined the youth organization of the resistance movement.

Michail "Mikis" Theodorakis was a Greek composer and lyricist credited with over 1, works.

Michail "Mikis" Theodorakis was a Greek composer and lyricist credited with over 1, works.

Mikis Theodorakis was born in the Greek island of Chios, in It was the same year that the other great composer of Greece was born in Xanthi.

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Exposed to Byzantine and Demotic Greek music from birth, at the age of 12, Theodorakis took up the violin and composed his first works, settings of neo-Hellenic.

Classical composer famed for his film scores to Zorba the Greek and Serpico, and for his firebrand politics.

During the Greek Civil War (1946–1949), he was arrested in 1947 and deported first to Ikaria and then to the Makronisos internment camps; he was released in 1949. In 1954 he graduated from the Athens Conservatory and was admitted to the Paris Conservatory.

His first compositions were symphonic works, but when he returned to Greece he was attracted by popular music.

From the late 1950s, Theodorakis set to music poems from renowned poets like Yannis Ritsos (1909–1990; Epitafios, 1958) and the Nobel Prize laureate Odysseus Elytis (1911–1996; Axion Esti, 1960), combining elements from symphonic, e