Dimitris Dragatakis

Dimitris Dragatakis (Greek: Δημήτρης Δραγατάκης; 22 January 1914 – 18 December 2001) was a Greek composer of classical music and Greek art 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 Greece's most important modern composers, with a personal musical idiom that is both mature and laconic. Influenced by the musical traditions of Greece (in particular the ones of his native Epirus) and ancient Greek drama, his music also came to reflect his interest in new techniques such as free atonality, novel instrumental combinations, post-modernism, minimalism and electronic music. He won a number of major prizes, including the Maria Callas award from the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation in 1997 and the prestigious J. A. Papaioannou award from the Athens Academy in 1999. He taught violin and later on theory at the Greek National Conservatory for twenty years, until he was appointed vice president of the conservatory in 1997. He played for twenty years in the Greek National…Citește mai mult

Sources: Afieroma (Dedication), variation on a theme by Manolis Kalomiris (1963)

Diaphores (Differences) (1965) Mousiki gia treis (Music for three) (1969)

Ar-Tho-Ta (Ar-Tho-Ta) (1996) Quartet No. 6 for violin, oboe, viola, and cello (1999)

Nanourisma (Berceuse) (Indeterminate, estimated 1942-49) Choros (Dance) for Violin and Piano (Indeterminate, estimated 1949-57) Anamnisi (Remembrance) for Violin and Piano (1942)

String Quartet No. 1 (1957) Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano (1958)

String Quartet No. 2 (1958) Trio for two Violins and Viola (1960)

String Quartet No. 3 (1960) Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano (1961)

Suite for double string quartet (1961) Trio for Violin, Viola, and Cello (1965) Diafores (Differences) for Violin and Piano (1965)

Sources: Trio for Oboe, Clarinet in Bb, Bassoon (1962)

Woodwind Quintet (1964) Epilogos (Epilogue) for Two trumpets, Horn, Trombone, Tuba (1970) Mousiki gia chalkina (Music for brass) for Trumpet, Horn, Trombone, Tuba (1971) Dialogoi (Dialogues) for two wind quartets (1974) Duo for Tuba and Clarinet in Bb (1977) Duo for Clarinet in Bb and Piano (1981) En Samo (In Samos) for Flute and Piano (1998) Nanourisma (Berceuse) for Alto Saxophone and Piano (2001)

Sources: Erot’ anikite (Love invincible), Sophocles, Antigone, third stasimon (Indeterminate, estimated 1969) O choros (The chorus), Euripides, The Heracleidae, fourth stasimon (Indeterminate, estimated 1970)

Thalassino (Marine), D. Dragatakis (1980) I treli rodia (The crazy pomegranate tree), Od. Elytis (1981)

I lismonia (Forgetfulness), I. Dragataki (1986) T’ oneiro (The dream), Chr. Apostolatou (1986) Efchi tis manas (The mother’s wish), Iro Dragataki (1986) T’ oneiro tis manas (The mother’s dream), D. Dragatakis (1994) Ton vrachon touton (This rock), D. Kourouklis (1997)

Agnoristi (Unrecognizable), D. Solomos (1997) To aeri (The breeze), Μ. Avlichos (1997)

Sources: Concerto for Viola and Piano (Indeterminate, estimated 1949-57)