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Mikis Theodorakis

Greek composer (–)

Mikis Theodorakis

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Born

Michail Theodorakis


()29 July

Chios, Second Hellenic Republic

Died2 September () (aged&#;96)

Athens, Greece

Resting placeGalatas Cemetery, Chania,&#;Crete
Occupations
  • Composer
  • political activist
Political partyKKE
Other political
affiliations
New Democracy (–)
Spouse

Myrto Altinoglou

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(m.&#;)&#;
Children2, including George&#;[de]
Musical career
Genres20th-century classical music
Years active
Labels

Musical artist

In office
In office
In office
In office
11 April &#;– 1 April
Prime MinisterKonstantinos Mitsotakis
Website

Michail "Mikis" Theodorakis (Greek: Μιχαήλ "Μίκης" Θεοδωράκης[mixaˈilˈmicisθeoðoˈracis]; 29 July – 2 September )[1] was a Greek composer and lyricist credited with over 1, works.[2][3][4][5][6]

He scored for the films Zorba the Greek (), Z (), and Serpico ().

He was a three-time BAFTA nominee, winning for Z.[7] For the score in Serpico, he earned Grammy nominations.[8] Furthermore, for the score to Zorba the Greek, with its song "Zorba's Dance", he was nominated for a Golden Globe.[9]

He composed the "Mauthausen Trilogy", also known as "The Ballad of Mauthausen", which has been described as the "most beautiful musical work ever written about the Holocaust" and possibly his best work.[10] Up until his death, he was viewed as Greece's best-known living composer.[3][5][11] He was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize.[12]

Politically, he was associated with the left because of his long-standing ties to the Communist Party of Greece (KKE).

He was an MP for the KKE from to Despite this, however, he ran as an independent candidate within the centre-right New Democracy party in , in order for the country to emerge from the political crisis that had been created due to the numerous scandals of the government of Andreas Papandreou.[13] He helped establish a large coalition between conservatives, socialists and leftists.

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  • In , he was elected to the parliament (as in and ), became a government minister under Konstantinos Mitsotakis, and fought against drugs and terrorism and in favor of culture and education. He continued to speak out in favour of leftist causes, Greek–Turkish–Cypriot relations, and against the War in Iraq.[14][15] He was a key voice against the – Greek junta, which imprisoned him and banned his songs.[16]

    Early life

    Theodorakis was born on the Greek island of Chios and spent his childhood years in provincial Greek cities including Mytilene,[17]Cephallonia,[17]Patras,[18][19]Pyrgos,[20][21] and Tripoli.[21][22] His father, a lawyer and a civil servant, was from the small village of Galatas on Crete[23] and his mother, Aspasia Poulakis, was from an ethnically Greek family in Çeşme, in what is now Turkey.[11][24][25][26][27] He was raised with Greek folk music and was influenced by Byzantineliturgy; as a child he had already talked about becoming a composer.[28][29]

    His fascination with music began in early childhood; he taught himself to write his first songs without access to musical instruments.

    He took his first music lessons in Patras[18] and Pyrgos,[20] where he was a childhood friend of George Pavlopoulos,[30] and in Tripoli, Peloponnese,[22] he gave his first concert at the age of seventeen. He went to Athens in , and became a member of a Reserve Unit of ELAS.

    He led a troop in the fight against the British and the Greek right in the Dekemvriana.[31] During the Greek Civil War he was arrested, sent into exile on the island of Icaria[32] and then deported to the island of Makronisos, where he was tortured and twice buried alive.[33]

    During the periods when he was not obliged to hide, not exiled or jailed, he studied from to at the Athens Conservatoire under Filoktitis Economidis&#;[el].[34] In , he finished his studies and took his last two exams "with flying colours".[35] He went to Crete, where he became the "head of the Chania Music School" and founded his first orchestra.[36]

    Studies in Paris

    In , Theodorakis married Myrto Altinoglou.[37] The following year, they travelled to Paris, where he entered the Conservatory and studied musical analysis under Olivier Messiaen[38] and conducting under Eugene Bigot.[39]

    His symphonic works: a Piano concerto, his first suite, his first symphony, and his scores for the ballet: Greek Carnival, Le Feu aux Poudres, Les Amants de Teruel, received international acclaim.

    In , he won the Gold Medal in the Moscow Music Festival.[40] In , after the successful performances of Theodorakis's opera Antigone at Covent Garden in London, the French composer Darius Milhaud proposed him for the American Copley Music Prize – an award of the "William and Noma Copley Foundation",[41] which later changed its name to "Cassandra Foundation" as the "Best European Composer of the Year".

    His first international scores for the film Ill Met by Moonlight and Honeymoon (aka Luna de Miel), directors: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, were successful: The Honeymoon Song, title song of the later, became part of the repertoire of The Beatles.[42]

    Back to Greek roots

    In , Theodorakis returned to Greece and his roots in Greek music.

    With his song cycle Epitaphios, he contributed to a cultural revolution in his country.[43] His most significant and influential works are based on Greek and world poetry – Epiphania (Giorgos Seferis), Little Kyklades (Odysseas Elytis), Axion Esti (Elytis), Mauthausen (Iakovos Kambanellis), Romiossini (Yannis Ritsos), and Romancero Gitano (Federico García Lorca) – he attempted to give back to Greek music a dignity which in his perception it had lost.

    He developed his concept of "metasymphonic music" (symphonic compositions that go beyond the "classical" status and mix symphonic elements with popular songs, Western symphonic orchestra and Greek popular instruments).[44]

    He founded the Athens Little Symphony Orchestra and gave many concerts in the country, trying to familiarize people with symphonic music.[45]

    After the assassination of Gregoris Lambrakis in May he founded the Lambrakis Democratic Youth ("Lambrákides") and was elected its president.[46] Under Theodorakis's impetus, it started a vast cultural renaissance movement and became the greatest political organisation in Greece with more than 50, members.[47] Following the elections, Theodorakis became a member of the Greek Parliament, associated with the left-wing party EDA.

    Because of his political ideas, the composer was black-listed by the cultural establishment; at the time of his biggest artistic glory, a large number of his songs were censored-before-studio or were not allowed on the radio stations.[48]

    During , he wrote the music for the Michael Cacoyiannis film Zorba the Greek, whose main theme, since then, exists as a trademark for Greece.

    It is also known as "Syrtaki dance", inspired by old Cretan traditional dances.[49]

    During the dictatorship

    On 21 April the Regime of the Colonelstook power in a putsch. Theodorakis was a symbol of resistance to the military regime. He went into hiding, issued the first call for resistance against the dictatorship on 23 April.

    and founded the Pan-Hellenic Anti-Dictatorship Front&#;[el] (PAM).[37][50] On 1 June, the Colonels published "Army decree No 13", which banned playing, and even listening to his music. Theodorakis was arrested on 21 August,[51] and jailed for five months.

    He was released at the end of January , and then deported in August to Zatouna with his wife, Myrto, and their two children, Margarita and George&#;[de].[52] Later he was interned in the concentration camp of Oropos.[53]

    An international solidarity movement, headed by such personalities as Dmitri Shostakovich, Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Miller, and Harry Belafonte demanded to get Theodorakis freed.

    On request of the French politician Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, Theodorakis was allowed to go into exile to Paris on 13 April Theodorakis' flight left secretly from an Onassis-owned private airport outside Athens. He arrived at Le Bourget Airport where he met Costa Gavras, Melina Mercouri and Jules Dassin. Theodorakis was immediately hospitalized with tuberculosis.[54] His wife and children joined him a week later in France, having travelled from Greece via Italy on a boat.[55]

    He would compose, alongside Pagani, the anthem of the French Socialist Party, in [56][57]

    Resistance in exile

    In , Mikis Theodorakis was invited to Chile by then-presidentSalvador Allende.

    In Valparaíso, he listened to a group of young people who introduced him to part of the work of the poet Pablo Neruda. Theodorakis loved it and promised to give Chile his musical opinion on the Canto General. Back to Paris, in Theodorakis met Pablo Neruda when the Greek composer was rehearsing the musicalization of Canto General.

    Neruda was impressed and asked him to include poems such as "Lautaro" and "A Emiliano Zapata".[58]

    He was received by Gamal Abdel Nasser and Tito, Yigal Allon and Yasser Arafat, while François Mitterrand, Olof Palme and Willy Brandt became his friends. For millions of people, Theodorakis was the symbol of resistance against the Greek dictatorship together with Melina Mercouri.[59][60][61]

    Return to Greece

    After the fall of the colonels, Mikis Theodorakis returned to Greece on 24 July to continue his work and his concert tours, both in Greece and abroad.[62] His return was in triumph, with huge crowds and his music playing on the radio.[63] At the same time he participated in public affairs.

    In , through his article For a United Left Wing, he had "stirred up the Greek political life. His proposal for the unification of the three parties of the former United Left (Greece)—which had grown out of the National Liberation Front—had been accepted by the Greek Communist Party which later proposed him as the candidate for mayor of Athens during the elections." (Andreas Brandes)[64] He was later elected several times to the Greek Parliament (– and –) and for two years, from to , he was a minister in the government of Constantine Mitsotakis.

    Theodorakis mikis biography of albert einstein Retrieved 8 November From a young age, Theodorakis showed an interest and love for music, composing his first songs before even learning to play musical instruments. In office 11 April — 1 April At the age of 17, he organized a choir in the city of Tripoli in the Peloponnese region.

    After his resignation as a member of Greek parliament, he was appointed General Musical Director of the Choir and the two Orchestras of the Hellenic State Radio (ERT), which he reorganised and with which he undertook successful concert tours abroad.[65]

    He was committed to raising international awareness of human rights, environmental issues, and the need for peace.

    For this reason, he initiated, along with the Turkish author, musician, singer and filmmaker Zülfü Livaneli, the Greek–Turkish Friendship Society.[66]

    From , Theodorakis had started the fourth period of his musical writing, during which he returned to the symphonic music, while still going on to compose song-cycles. His most significant works written in these years are his Second, Third, Fourth, and Seventh Symphony, most of them being first performed in the former German Democratic Republic between and It was during this period that he received the Lenin Peace Prize.

    He composed his first opera Kostas Kariotakis (The Metamorphoses of Dionysus) and the ballet Zorba the Greek, premièred in the Arena of Verona during the Festival Verona During this period, he also wrote the five volumes of his autobiography: The Ways of the Archangel (Οι δρόμοι του αρχάγγελου).[37]

    In , he started the fifth period, the last, of his musical writing: He composed three operas (lyric tragedies) Medea, first performed in Bilbao (1 October ), Elektra, first performed in Luxembourg (2 May ) and Antigone, first performed in Athens Concert Hall (7 October ).

    This trilogy was complemented by his last opera Lysistrata, first performed in Athens (14 April ): a call for peace With his operas, and with his song cycles from to , Theodorakis ushered in the period of his Lyrical Life.[67]

    In March , gave a concert at the Berlin Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

    Afterwards he was hospitalized due to respiratory difficulties and it was when he declared that this was his last concert.[68]

    Theodorakis was Doctor honoris causa of several universities.[69]

    Later life and death

    He later lived in retirement, reading, writing, publishing arrangements of his scores, texts about culture and politics.

    On occasions he took position: in , opposing NATO's Kosovo war and in against the Iraq War. In , he was awarded the Sorano Friendship and Peace Award, the Russian International St.-Andrew-the-First-Called Prize, the insignia of Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of Luxembourg, and the IMC UNESCO International Music Prize, while already in he was honoured in Bonn with the Erich Wolfgang Korngold Prize for film music at the International Film Music Biennial in Bonn[70] (cf also: Homepage of the Art and Exhibition Hall Bonn).[71] In , he received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the distribution of the World Soundtrack Awards in Ghent.[72]

    A final set of songs titled: Odysseia was composed by utilizing poetry written by Costas Kartelias for lyrics.

    In he composed a Rhapsody for Strings (Mezzo-Soprano or Baryton ad lib.). Created on 30 January , Theodorakis achieved the distinction of producing one of the largest works by any composer of any time.[73]

    On 26 February , Theodorakis was hospitalized with heart problems. On 8 March, he underwent surgery for a pacemaker.[74][75] He died of cardiopulmonary arrest at his home in Athens on 2 September , at the age of [37][1] The Greek Prime Minister declared three days of national mourning to honour him,[37][76] and his body lay in state in the chapel of the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens, with thousands of people, including artists, as well as political leaders from all Greek parties paying their last respects.

    Epitaphs were delivered by the president of the Hellenic Republic, Aikaterini Sakellaropoulou, and the general secretary of the Communist Party of Greece, Dimitrios Koutsoumbas. Afterwards, according to his will, his body was transferred by boat overnight to be buried in his hometown of Galatas, near Chania, Crete, where his parents and brother Giannis Theodorakis&#;[el] were buried.

    [37][77]

    Political views

    Israel and Jews

    Theodorakis opposed Israel's occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. He criticised Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou for establishing closer relations with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was guilty, he said, of "war crimes in Lebanon and Gaza."[78] Theodorakis was a vocal critic of Zionism, and referred to himself as an "anti-Zionist."[79][80][81][82] In , he stated, "Everything that happens today in the world has to do with the Zionists American Jews are behind the world economic crisis that has hit Greece as well." He was accused of saying that "this small nation (Israel) is the root of evil".[83] Theodorakis later clarified his comments, stating in a letter to the Central Council of Jews in Greece that what he had said was: "Unfortunately the state of Israel supports the United States and their foreign policy, which is the root of the Evil and, therefore, it is close to the root of the Evil.”[84] He was also accused of having admitted his anti-Semitism during an interview on Greek TV on 8 February His controversial statement on television had been: “I should clarify that I am anti-Semite.

    Essentially, I love the Jewish people, I love the Jews, I have lived long with them but as much as I hate anti-Semitism, I hate Zionism even more so”, being "I am anti-Semite" an obvious slip of the tongue for "anti-Zionist".[84] In , he condemned Golden Dawn for Holocaust denial.[85]

    Views of the United States

    Theodorakis was a long-time critic of the United States foreign policy.

    During the invasion of Iraq, he called Americans "detestable, ruthless cowards and murderers of the people of the world". He said he would consider anyone who interacted with "these barbarians", for whatever reason, as his enemy.[86] Theodorakis greatly opposed the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia during the Yugoslav Wars.

    He participated in a charity concert protesting the bombing in [87]

    – Non-political movement

    On 1 December , Mikis Theodorakis founded "Spitha: People's Independent Movement", a non-political movement which calls people to gather and express their political ideas. The main goal of "Spitha" is to help Greece stay clear of its economic crisis.[88] On 31 May , Theodorakis gave a speech attended by approximately 10, people in the center of Athens, criticising the Greek government for the loan debt it has taken from the International Monetary Fund.[89]

    Positions on Macedonia

    In Mikis Theodorakis stated on the Macedonian issue that "The name does not matter so much, as long as the peoples live in peace".

    Later, in an interview, he stressed "In fact, this country is being pushed towards improving relations with Greece. So why shouldn't it be possible for our relations to prosper at all levels and whatever comes up? The Customs Union, confederation, etc. are just conditions. In any case, I think that the name issue will be overcome when the relations between the two peoples reach such a point that the name will not matter at all".[90]

    Theodorakis was one of the main speakers at the Rally for Macedonia in Athens, which took place on 4 February In his speech, he stated that "Macedonia is one, was, is and will always be Greek."[91][92] The statements garnered support from parties in parliament, while even Golden Dawn MPs welcomed Mikis Theodorakis' shift on the name of Macedonia.

    Members of SYRIZA and Yiannis Boutaris commented negatively on Theodorakis' statements. Also, the day before the rally, a group of anarchists threw paint at the entrance of his house and then wrote threatening messages, such as: "Your story starts from the mountain and ends in the national swamp of Syntagma Square.[93]

    Works

    Source:[28]

    His song cycles are based on poems by Greek authors, as well as by García Lorca and Neruda: Epitaphios, Archipelagos, Politia A-D, Epiphania, The Hostage, Mykres Kyklades, Mauthausen, Romiossini, Sun and Time, Songs for Andreas, Mythology, Night of Death, Ta Lyrika, The Quarters of the World, Dionysos, Phaedra, Mia Thalassa, Os Archaios Anemos, Ta Lyrikotera, Ta Lyrikotata, Erimia, Odysseia.

    Theodorakis released two albums of his songs and song cycles on Paredon Records and Folkways Records in the early seventies, including his Peoples' Music: The Struggles of the Greek People ().[94]

    Symphonic works

    • The Apocalypse (Ode to Beethoven)
    • Festival of Asi Gonia
    • Piano Concerto "Helikon"
    • First Symphony ("Proti Simfonia")
    • – 3 Orchestral Suites
    • Piano Concerto No 1
    • Symphony No 2 ("The Song of the Earth"; text: Mikis Theodorakis) for children's choir, piano, and orchestra
    • Symphony No 3 (texts: Dionysios Solomos; Constantine P.

      Cavafy; Byzantine hymns) for soprano, choir, and orchestra

    • Symphony No 7 ("Spring-Symphony"; texts: Yannis Ritsos; Yorgos Kulukis) for four soloists, choir, and orchestra
    • – Symphony No 4 ("Of Choirs") for soprano, mezzo, narrator, choir, and symphonic orchestra without strings
    • Rhapsody for Guitar and Orchestra
    • Sinfonietta
    • Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra
    • Rhapsody for Trumpet and Orchestra (for Piccolo Trumpet, orchestrated by Robert Gulya)
    • "Andalusia" for Mezzo and Orchestra

    Source:[95]

    Chamber music

    • Sonatina for piano
    • Elegy No 1, for cello and piano
    • Elegy No 2, for violin and piano
    • String Quartet No 1
    • String Quartet No 2 "To Kimiterio"
    • Duetto, for two violins
    • Trio, for violin, cello and piano
    • 11 Preludes, for piano
    • Sexteto, for piano, flute and string quartet
    • Study for two violins and cello
    • Syrtos Chaniotikos, for piano and percussion
    • Sonatina No 1, for violin and piano
    • Little Suite, for piano
    • Passacaglia, for two pianos
    • Sonatina No 2, for violin and piano
    • Choros Assikikos, for violoncello solo
    • Melos, for piano
    • East of the Aegean, for cello and piano

    Cantatas and oratorios

    • Axion Esti (text: Odysseas Elytis)
    • The March of the Spirit (text: Angelos Sikelianos)
    • – Canto General (text: Pablo Neruda)
    • – Kata Saddukaion Pathi (Sadducean-Passion; text: Michalis Katsaros) for tenor, baritone, bass, choir and orchestra
    • Liturgy No 2 ("To children, killed in War"); texts: Tassos Livaditis, Mikis Theodorakis) for choir
    • – Lorca, for voice, solo guitar, choir, and orchestra (based on Romancero Gitano (text: Federico García Lorca, translated by Odysseas Elytis)
    • Canto Olympico, for voice, solo piano, choir, and orchestra (texts: Dimitra Manda, Mikis Theodorakis)
    • Requiem (text: St.

      John Damascene)

    • tis dikaiosunis hlie nohte

    Hymns

    • Hymn for Nasser
    • Hymn for the Socialist Movement in Venezuela
    • Hymn for the Students. dedicated to the victims of Polytechnical School in Athens ()
    • Hymn of the French Socialist Party
    • Hymn for Malta
    • Hymn of P.L.O.
    • Hymn of the Mediterranean Games
    • "Hellenism" (A song for the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics, later used again during the Summer Olympics)

    Ballets

    • Carnaval (choreography: Rallou Manou)
    • Le Feu aux Poudres (choreography: Paul Goubé)
    • Les Amants de Teruel (choreography: Milko Šparemblek)
    • Antigone (choreography: John Cranko)
    • Antigone in Jail (choreography: Micha van Hoecke)
    • Elektra (choreography: Serge Kenten)
    • Sept Danses Grecques (choreography: Maurice Béjart)
    • – Zorba il Greco (choreography: Lorca Massine)

    Operas

    • – Kostas Karyotakis (The Metamorphosis of Dionysos)
    • – Medea
    • – Elektra
    • – Antigone
    • – Lysistrata

    Music for the stage

    Classical tragedies

    Modern plays

    • – To Tragoudi tou Nekrou Adelfou (Ballad of the Dead Brother), Musical Tragedy (text: Mikis Theodorakis)
    • – Omorphi Poli (Beautiful City), revue (Bost, Dimitris Christodoulou, Christofelis, et al.)
    • I Gitonia ton Angelon (The Quarter of Angels), Music-drama (Iakovos Kambanelis)
    • Magiki Poli (Enchanted City), revue (Mikis Theodorakis, Notis Pergialis, Michalis Katsaros)
    • Antigoni stin Filaki (Antigone in Jail), drama
    • Prodomenos Laos (Betrayed People), music for the theatre (Vangelis Goufas)
    • Echtros Laos (Enemy People), drama (Iakovos Kambanelis)
    • Christophorus Kolumbus, drama (Nikos Kazantzakis)
    • Kapodistrias, drama (Nikos Kazantzakis)
    • O Allos Alexandros ("The Other Alexander"), drama (Margarita Limberaki)
    • Papflessas, play (Spiros Melas)

    International theatre

    Principal film scores

    Source:[96][97][95]

    Scores

    • Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra
    • March of the spirit (Oratorio, Full Score)
    • Axion esti (Oratorio Full Score)
    • Zorbas Ballet (Suite – Ballet, Full Score)
    • Carnaval (Suite – Ballet Full, Score)
    • Adagio (Full Score) & Sinfonietta (Full Score)
    • Epiphania Averof (Cantata)
    • Canto Olympico (Oratorio)
    • Les Eluard
    • Ο κύκλος
    • 20 τραγούδια για πιάνο και αρμόνιο
    • Η Βεατρίκη στην οδό Μηδέν
    • Μια θάλασσα γεμάτη μουσική
    • Τα λυρικώτερα
    • Τα λυρικώτατα
    • Τα πρόσωπα του Ήλιου
    • Φαίδρα (Phaedra)
    • Λιποτάκτες
    • Θαλασσινά φεγγάρια
    • Ασίκικο πουλάκη
    • Romancero Gitano (για πιάνο – φωνή)
    • Τα Λυρικά
    • Ταξίδι μέσα στη νύχτα
    • Μικρές Κυκλάδες
    • Διόνυσος (Dionysus)
    • Επιφάνια (Epiphany)
    • Επιτάφιος (Epitaph)
    • Μπαλάντες.

      Κύκλος τραγουδιών για πιάνο και φωνή

    • Χαιρετισμοί. Κύκλος τραγουδιών για πιάνο και φωνή
    • Ένα όμηρος

    Internationally available CD releases

    • Mikis Theodorakis & Zülfü Livaneli — Together (Tropical), [99]
    • Mikis Theodorakis — First Symphony & Adagio (Wergo/Schott)
    • Mikis Theodorakis — Mikis (Peregrina)
    • Mikis Theodorakis — Symphony No.

      4 (Wergo/Schott)

    • Mikis Theodorakis — Symphony No. 7 (Wergo/Schott)
    • Mikis Theodorakis — Requiem: For soloists, choir and symphonic orchestra (Wergo/Schott)
    • Mikis Theodorakis — Symphonietta & Etat de Siege (Wergo/Schott)
    • Maria Farantouri & Rainer Kirchmann — Sun & Time: Songs by Theodorakis (Lyra)
    • Mikis Theodorakis — Mauthausen Trilogy: In Greek, Hebrew and English (Plaene)
    • Mikis Theodorakis — Carnaval — Raven (for mezzo and symphonic orchestra) (Wergo/Schott)
    • Mikis Theodorakis — Resistance (historic recordings) (Wergo/Schott)
    • Mikis Theodorakis — First Songs (Wergo/Schott)
    • Mikis Theodorakis — Antigone/Medea/Electra (3-Opera Box) (Wergo/Schott)
    • Mikis Theodorakis — The Metamorphosis of Dionysus (Opera) (Wergo/Schott)
    • Mikis Theodorakis — Rhapsodies for Cello and Guitar (Wergo/Schott)
    • Mikis Theodorakis — East of the Aegean (for cello and piano) (Wergo/Schott)
    • Mikis Theodorakis & Francesco Diaz — Timeless (Wormland White)

    Source:[95]

    Written works

    Books in Greek by Theodorakis:

    • Το χρέος (The Debt), ed.

      Terradia tetradias tis Democracy –

    • Μουσική για τις μάζες (Music for the masses), ed. Olkos,
    • Στοιχεία για μια νέα πολιτική» (Elements for new politics), ed. Papazisis,
    • Δημοκρατική και συγκεντρωτική αριστερά (Democratic and centralized left), ed. Papazisis,
    • Οι μνηστήρες της Πηνελόπης (The suitors of Penelope), ed.

      Papazisis,

    • Περί Τέχνης (On Art), ed. Papazisis,
    • Η αλλαγή. Προβλήματα ενότητας της Αριστεράς (Change. Problems of Unity of the Left),
    • Μαχόμενη Κουλτούρα (Fighting Culture),
    • Για την ελληνική μουσική (For Greek Music),
    • Ανατομία της σύγχρονης μουσικής (Anatomy of Contemporary Music), ed.

      Synchroni Epochi,

    • Star System, ed. Kaktos,
    • Οι δρόμοι του αρχάγγελου (The Roads of the Archangel), autobiography, ed. Cedros, –
    • Ζητείται Αριστερά (The Left is Wanted), ed. Sideris,
    • Αντιμανιφέστο (Antimanefesto), ed. Gnoseis.
    • Πού πάμε (Where are we going?), ed.

      Gνoseis,

    • Ανατομία της Μουσικής (Anatomy of Music), ed. Alpheios,
    • Να μαγευτώ και να μεθύσω (To be enchanted and drunk), ed. Livani,
    • Το μανιφέστο των Λαμπράκηδων (The Lambrakis Manifesto), ed. Helleniki Grammata,
    • The trilogy Πού να βρω την ψυχή μου (Where to find my soul), ed.

      Livani,

    • Μάνου Χατζηδάκι εγκώμιον (Praise of Manos Hadjidakis), ed. Janos,
    • Σπίθα για μια Ελλάδα ανεξάρτητη και δυνατή (Spark for an independent and strong Greece), ed. Janos,
    • Διάλογοι στο λυκόφως συνεντεύξεις (Dialogues in the twilight interviews), ed. Janos,
    • Μονόλογοι στο λυκαυγές (Monologues in the twilight), ed.

      Janos,

    • "The Dialectics of Harmony (Στη Διαλεκτική της Αρμονίας), co-authored with Kostas Gouliamos, Gutenberg, [40]

    Poems

    • Το τραγούδι του νεκρού αδελφού (The Song of the Dead Brother).
    • Ο Ήλιος και ο Χρόνος (The Sun and Time).
    • Αρκαδία Ι (Arcadia I).
    • Αρκαδία VI (Arcadia VI).
    • Αρκαδία X (Arcadia X).
    • Τραγούδι της γης (Song of the Earth) from Symphony No.

      2.[40]

    Awards and decorations

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