Dimitri Terzakis

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Dimitri Terzakis (Greek: Δημήτρης Τερζάκης; born March 12, 1938 in Athens) is a Greek composer. His father was the author Angelos Terzakis. From 1959–1964 Terzakis studied composition with Yannis Papaioannou at the Athens Hellenic Conservatory, followed by five years spent at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, Germany where he studied composition with Bernd Alois Zimmermann and electronic music with Herbert Eimert. Works by Terzakis have been performed at the International Society for Contemporary Music Festival in Basle (1970), the Darmstadt Artists' Colony summer courses (1970) and the Hamburg Das Neue Werk series (1972). He taught counterpoint and fugue (1974–94) and Byzantine music and composition (1989–94) at the Musikhochschule, Düsseldorf. In 1980 he began to organize summer courses in Western and south-eastern European music in Nafplion. In 1985–6 he was guest professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler. From 1994 to his retirement he held the chair for composition at the Leipzig Felix Mendelssohn College of Music and Theatre. He has been a German citizen since 1985 and is living and composing in Leipzig, Germany, and Nafplion, Greece. Compositions[edit] As a composer, Terzakis' music began with an expanded tonality (Prelude (1961) and Legend (1964)) moving to 12-note serialism (e.g. the Sinfonietta (1965)) and then to a fruitful exploration of micro-intervals and glissandi, principally in his melody, based on Byzantine music. In recent years,

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Greek Electronic Music 1

Terzakis: The Gates of Night and Day

Terzakis: Hero Und Leander / Gedichte Der Verdammten / Epitaph / Lux Et Tenebrae / Erinyen

Greek Flute Music of the 20th and 21st Centuries

Bergman: Etwas Rascher / Dunser: 5 Pieces for Saxophone Quartet / Xenakis: Xas / Denhoff: Pnoxoud

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Terzakis: String Quartet No. 5, Die Farben des Ozeans, Lieder ohne Worte & Liturgia profana

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donaueschinger musiktage

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String Quartet No. 5 - Songs without Words - Liturgia profana

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Offene Welt 1

Greek Electronic Music - 1

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Bridges: Works for Violin and Piano by Greek composers

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Donaueschinger Musiktage 1992

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