Mikis Theodorakis
Greek, 1925 - 2021
Place ActiveAthens, Attica, Greece
Michail "Mikis" Theodorakis was a celebrated Greek composer and activist. He was classically trained at the Athens and Paris Conservatories. Theodorakis wrote the scores for multiple films as well as composed symphonies, operas, and ballets. He was known for his wartime resistance music and ability to connect with the plight of the people. Theodorakis often put poetry to music including the “Mauthausen Trilogy” based on memoris of a Holocaust survivor and Odysseus Elytis' "The Axion Esti" which went on to win a Nobel Prize in Literature. Additionally, Theodorakis worked in Greek politics serving the Hellenic Parliament on three separate occasions and at the Minister of State in the early 1990s.