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DIMITRIS MITROPOULOS GREEK COMPOSER

DIMITRIS MITROPOULOS GREEK COMPOSER. Hailing from the village  Melissopetra - Gortynia, Dimitris Mitropoulos was born in Athens in 1896. He wrote expressionist and atonal music, but stopped the composition and devoted himself to conducting. 

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DIMITRIS MITROPOULOS GREEK COMPOSER

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  1. DIMITRIS MITROPOULOSGREEK COMPOSER Hailing from the village Melissopetra-Gortynia, Dimitris Mitropoulos was born in Athens in 1896. He wrote expressionist and atonal music, but stopped the composition and devoted himself to conducting.  Rehearsed with the orchestra without a score, he knew by heart the voices of all organs.

  2. For his compositions, Mitropoulos was influenced by modern musical trends of his time. Works are: "My soul," "The Greek sonata", "Four KYTHERIAN dances", the opera "Beatrice," which premiered in 1919 at the Municipal Theatre of Athens.On 2 November 1960 gets a last and fatal heart attack at the podium of La Scala in Milan during a rehearsal of 3 Agreement Gu. Mahler. According to his wishes, his body was cremated in Switzerland and his ashes returned to Athens, where exposed to public veneration at the Conservatory Herodius Atticus.

  3. NIKOS GATSOS (8 December 1911, Asea Tripolis-12 May 1992, Athens)GREEK POET, TRANSLATOR AND LYRICIST. Nikos Gatsos was born in 1911 in Asea in Arcadia of Peloponnese, where he finished primary school. He attended high school in Tripoli, where he became acquainted with literature and foreign languages.

  4. He studied literature, philosophy, and history at the University of Athens, where he came in contact with the literary circles and published his poems, small in extent and in a classic style. • He devoted considerable time to translating plays from various languages in Greek.All of the plays he translated were staged at the Greek National Theatreand the Greek Theatre of Art. • He wrote lyrics for major Greek composers, including Manos Hadjidakis, Mikis Theodorakis, Stavros Xarchakos. His lyrics are known over the world because of Nana Mouskouri.

  5. CONSTANTINOS GAVRAS(born 12 February 1933) Costa-Gavras was born in Arcadia. His family spent the Second World War in a village in the Peloponnese, and moved to Tripolis for 2 years. His father had been a member of the left-wing branch of the Greek Resistance. He lives and works in France as a filmmaker and he is best known for films with overt political themes, most famously the fast-paced thriller, Z (1969).

  6. Costa-Gavras is known for merging controversial political issues with the entertainment value of commercial cinema. Law and justice, oppression, legal/illegal violence, and torture are common subjects in his work, especially relevant to his earlier films. • His 1967 film Shock Troops (Un homme de trop) was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival. • Some movies: The Sleeping Car Murders (1965),Shock Troops (Un homme de trop) (1967), Z (1969), L'Aveu (1970), State of Siege (1972),Section spéciale (1975), Clair de femme (1979), Missing (1982), Hanna K. (1983) Eden in West (2009), Le Capital (2012)…

  7. ALEXANDROS PAPANASTASIOU (8 July 1876–17 November 1936) Greek politician, sociologist and Prime Minister. He was born in Arcadia, son of Member of Parliament Panagiotis Papanastasiou. He studied law in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (1895–1898),he studied social science, law and philosophy in the Humboldt University of Berlin and in 1907, he returned to Greece.

  8. In 1910, Papanastasiou was elected for the first time to the Hellenic Parliament. • After World War 1, Papanastasiou took part in several Venizelos governments. • He published a document entitled "The Democratic Manifesto" which criticised the Monarchy. • From 1926 until 1928, he was Minister of Agriculture and was instrumental in the establishment of the Agricultural Bank of Greece. • Papanastasiou briefly served as Prime Minister once more between May and June 1932.

  9. YIANNIS KOUROS(born February 13, 1956 in Tripoli, Greece) He is a Greek ultramarathon runner based in Melbourne. He is sometimes called the "Running God" or “Pheidippides Successor". He holds every men's outdoor road world record from 100 to 1,000 miles and every road and track record from 12 hours to 6 days.

  10. Kouros came to prominence when he won the Spartathlon in 1984 in record time and the Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon in 1985 in a record time of 5 days, 5 hours, 7 minutes and 6 seconds. He beat the previous record held by Cliff Young. • Kouros says that his secret is that "when other people get tired they stop, I DON'T. I take over my body with my mind I tell it that it's not tired and it listens". • Kouros has also written over 1,000 poems (several of which appear in his book Symblegmata (Clusters) and the book The Six-Day Run of the Century.

  11. on his running for the memory of Nikita Stamatelopoulos (Nikitaras). Yiannis Kouros passed by our school,

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