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Manos Hadjidakis (1925 - 1994)

Manos Hadjidakis was born in Xanthi, in Northern Greece, on 23 October 1925, and died in Athens on 15 June 1994. His father, who was killed in a flying accident in 1938, was a lawyer from Crete, while his mother came from Andrianopolis, the modern Turkish Edirne.

Growing up in Athens during the harsh years of Italian and German Occupation resulted in irregular studies at the University and the Athens Conservatory, in consequence of which Hadjidakis was considered to be largely self-taught. He identified with a group of high powered intellectuals and artists of the mid-war generation which included painters Yannis Tsarouchis and Yannis Moralis, and poets such as Nikos Gatsos, Angelos Sikelianos, Odysseas Elitis, and George Seferis.

With the undisputed originality of his daring ideas he often aroused strong feelings, gaining notoriety at the same time. The best examples of this were his lecture in 1949 on the up-to-then scorned rebetika songs, and the discontinuation in 1980 by the controllers of the Hellenic Radio and Television Organization of his original model for the Greek Third Radio Programme on the grounds of “provocative programming”.

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