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Mikis Theodorakis
Michail "Mikis" Theodorakis was a Greek composer and lyricist credited with over 1,000 works.
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politics · Greek composer (1925–2021) · composer · politician · film score composer · songwriter · recording artist · singer · conductor · writer · musician · bandleader · also Mikis Theodorakis, Michael "Mikis" Theodorakis, Michael Theodorakis, Mikis Michel Theodorakis, Theodorakis
Born 29 July 1925 · Died 2 September 2021 · Q151976
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2026· 12 entries
Published video “Mikis Theodorakis - The Laughing Boy (Bilbao 1987)”.
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Aporrea: Mikis Theodorakis: El militante musical de la libertad
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Published video “CELEBRATING MIKIS TODAY!”.
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Published video “FULL CONCERT: Ferropolis Opening Show (Germany, 2000)”.
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Published video “FULL CONCERT TONIGHT!”.
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Published video “HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MIKIS!”.
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Published video “Mikis Theodorakis - The Kites (Live in Luxemburg, 1991)”.
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Published video “Maria Farantouri - Vegetaciones (Canto General)”.
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Published video “Thanassis Moraitis sings "One day, even this love will end" by Mikis Theodorakis”.
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Published video “Ekkehard Klemm conducts A Mi Partido (Canto General)”.
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Published video “Ekkehard Klemm conducts Sandino (Canto General)”.
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2025· 2 entries
The Greek government declared 2025 the “Year of Mikis Theodorakis” to mark the 100th anniversary of his birth
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His childhood home in Galatas, Chania, Crete was officially made a modern monument
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2021· 1 entry
Died 2021-09-02.
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2018· 1 entry
“Macedonia is one, was, is and will always be Greek.”
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2013· 2 entries
Awarded honorary member of the Athens Academy (2013).
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Condemned Golden Dawn for Holocaust denial
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2009· 1 entry
Composed a Rhapsody for Strings (mezzo-soprano or baritone ad lib
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2007· 1 entry
Received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the distribution of the World Soundtrack Awards in Ghent
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2005· 1 entry
Was awarded the Sorano Friendship and Peace Award, the Russian International St
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2003· 2 entries
“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.”
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Stated, "Everything that happens today in the world has to do with the Zionists
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2002· 1 entry
Was honoured in Bonn with the Erich Wolfgang Korngold Prize for film music at the International Film Music Biennial in Bonn (cf also: Homepage of the Art and Exhibition Hall Bonn)
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1999· 1 entry
Opposing NATO's Kosovo war and in 2003 against the Iraq War
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1997· 2 entries
Mikis Theodorakis stated on the Macedonian issue that "The name does not matter so much, as long as the peoples live in peace"
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“The name does not matter so much, as long as the peoples live in peace”
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1990· 2 entries
Was elected to the parliament (as in 1964 and 1981), became a government minister under Konstantinos Mitsotakis, and fought against drugs and terrorism and in favor of culture and education
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Career landmark: Minister of State (Greece) (1990–1992).
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1989· 3 entries
Started the fifth period, the last, of his musical writing: He composed three operas (lyric tragedies) Medea, first performed in Bilbao (1 October 1991), Elektra, first performed in Luxembourg (2 May 1995) and Antigon
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Career landmark: member of the Hellenic Parliament (1989–1992).
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For the country to emerge from the political crisis created by the numerous scandals of the government of Andreas Papandreou
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1983· 1 entry
Awarded Lenin Peace Prize (1983).
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1981· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Hellenic Parliament (1981–1986).
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1978· 1 entry
Through his article For a United Left Wing, he had "stirred up the Greek political life
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1972· 1 entry
Theodorakis met Pablo Neruda when the Greek composer was rehearsing the musicalization of Canto General
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1971· 1 entry
Mikis Theodorakis was invited to Chile by then-president Salvador Allende
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1970· 1 entry
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Original Music for Z (1970).
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1964· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Hellenic Parliament (1964–1967).
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1960· 1 entry
Theodorakis returned to Greece and his roots in Greek music
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1959· 1 entry
After the successful performances of Theodorakis's ballet 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 Cople
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1957· 1 entry
Won the Gold Medal in the Moscow Music Festival
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1953· 1 entry
Theodorakis married Myrto Altinoglou
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1950· 1 entry
Finished his studies and took his last two exams "with flying colours"
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1943· 1 entry
And became a member of a Reserve Unit of ELAS
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1925· 1 entry
Born 1925-07-29.
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