Manos hadjidakis never on sunday
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Manos Hadjidakis – Greek Oscar-Winning Composer
"I am a democrat, an upper-class humanitarian, and a right-wing revisionist.
I was never anticommunist…There’s a leftist in me, but leftism doesn’t have me.
My demeanour is that of an upper-class individual.
My culture is that of a poet. Idiosyncratically I am a commoner."
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What was Manos Hadjidakis’ political identity? From the very beginning, he offered an explanation.
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Biography
Manos Hadjidakis is considered by some as modern Greece’s greatest composer and songwriter. With Mikis Theodorakis, Hadjidakis helped elevate Greek folk and popular song into respected art and he became popular at home and abroad with his movie soundtrack work, winning an Oscar in 1960.
He also composed contemporary classical pieces for ensembl
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Manos Hadjidakis
Manos
Hadjidakis was born in Xanthi, Greece, on October 23, 1925. At the age of four, he started playing the piano. During 1940-43 he studied theory and harmony under MenelaosPalladios, an important composer of the Greek national school, and attended the School of Philopsophy of the Athens University. Due to the War, all his formal studies remained incomplete. Being essentially a self taught musician, he set out realise his visions about music and Song, while being nurtured in the company of artists and intellectuals of stature such as Seferis, Elytis, Tsarouhis, Gatsos, Sikelianos.From 1945 on, starting his collaboration with the Greek National Theatre and the Art Theatre of Athens, he mainly composed music for ancient Greek drama, as well as incidental music for the contemporary repertory: Medea (1956)) WomeninEcclesia(1956), Birds (1959), Othello (1957), AStreetcarNamedDesire (1948), BloodWedding (1948), Eurydice (1960) etc.
His famous lecture on the "rebetico" -still then, an underground type
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Manos Hatzidakis facts for kids
"Manos Chatzidakis" redirects here. For the basketball player, see Manos Chatzidakis (basketball).
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| Native name | Μάνος Χατζιδάκις |
| Born | (1925-10-23)23 October 1925 Xanthi, Greece |
| Died | 15 June 1994(1994-06-15) (aged 68) Athens, Greece |
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| Years active | 1944–1994 |
Manos Hatzidakis (also spelled Hadjidakis; Greek: Μάνος Χατζιδάκις; 23 October 1925 – 15 June 1994) was a Greek composer and theorist of Greek music, widely considered to be one of the greatest Greek composers and one of the most globally recognised. His legacy and contribution are widespread among the works of contemporary Greek music, through the second half of the 20th and into the 21st century. He was also one of the main proponents of the "Éntekhno" form of music (along with Mikis Theodorakis). In 1960, he received an Academy Award for Best Original Song for his song Never on Sunday from the film of the same name.
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