Dimitris Dragatakis [SEP] date of death
Dimitris Dragatakis
Dimitris Dragatakis (Greek: Δημήτρης Δραγατάκης; 22 January 1914 – 18 December 2001) was a Greek composer of classical music.
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
percussion (1986)
Discography.
- Dragatakis: Piano Works (complete) (Naxos 8.570789)
- Ballades for saxophone and orchestra (along with works by Tomasi, Ravel, Piazzola and Iturralde) (Naxos 8.557454)
External links.
- Dimitris Dragatakis at the Greek Music Information Centre
- Dragatakis biography at Naxos.com