Mikis theodorakis biography definition
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Theodorakis, Mikis (b. 1925)
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.
Mikis theodorakis biography definition
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. 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