Name Dimitris Dragatakis Role Composer | Albums Chamber Music I | |
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Died December 18, 2001, Athens, Greece Similar People Manolis Kalomiris, Nikos Skalkottas, Jani Christou, Dimitri Fampas, Kostas Giannidis | ||
Dimitris dragatakis 1914 2001 anadromes 2 1977 effie agrafioti piano 1977
Dimitris Dragatakis (Greek: Δημήτρης Δραγατάκης; 22 January 1914 – 18 December 2001) was a Greek composer of classical music.
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- Dimitris dragatakis 1914 2001 anadromes 2 1977 effie agrafioti piano 1977
- The ionian school of painting d dragatakis oboe conc part 2 of 2
- Selected works
- Discography
- References
He was born in Platanoussa, Epirus in 1914 and studied the violin from 1930 to 1939 at the Greek National Conservatory in Athens. Later on, he switched to the viola and from 1949 started composition lessons with Leonidas Zoras and Manolis Kalomiris, receiving his diploma in 1955.
He is considered one of the most important modern Greek composers, with a personal musical idiom that is both mature and laconic. Influenced by the musical traditions of Greece (in particular the ones of his native Epirus) and ancient Greek drama, his music also came to reflect his interest in new techniques such as free atonality, novel instrumental combinations, post-modernism, minimalism and electronic music.
He won a number of major prizes, including the Maria Callas award from the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation in 1997 and the prestigious J. A. Papaioannou award from the Athens Academy in 1999.
He taught violin and later on theory at the Greek National Conservatory for twenty years, until he was appointed vice president of the conservatory in 1997.
He played for twenty years in the Greek National Opera as a violist and later served on the board of the Athens State Orchestra. He was vice president and honorary president of the Greek Composers Union.
He died in Athens aged 87.