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Yannis Markopoulos

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Born in:Heraklion,
Greece
Year of Birth:1939
Year of death:2023

Biography

(source: wikipedia)

Yannis Markopoulos (; 18 March 1939 – 10 June 2023) was a Greek composer.
Yannis Markopoulos was born in 1939 in Heraklion, Crete. Born into one of the old families of the island — his father was an attorney and later a Prefect — he spent his childhood in the seaside town of Ierapetra. The Byzantine liturgy heard regularly from the church opposite his family home, Cretan traditional music, with its rapid dances of repeated small motifs, played by... more

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