Dimitris Dragatakis (22 January 1914 – 18 December 2001) was a Greek composer of classical music. January 22 is the 22nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... Classical music in its widest sense is held to refer to music deriving from learned traditions, taught through institutions either specifically devoted to music (e. ...

He was born in Epiros in 1914 and studied the violin at the Greek National Conservatory in Athens. A violin The violin is a bowed stringed musical instrument that has four strings tuned a perfect fifth apart. ... Athens (Greek: Αθήνα, Athína IPA: , formerly known as Turkish: Atina) is the capital of Greece and one of the most famous cities in the world, named after goddess Athena. ...

He is considered one of the most important Greek composers, with a personal musical idiom that is both mature and laconic. Influenced by the musical traditions of Greece and ancient Greek drama, his music came to reflect his interest in new techniques; he developed a free atonal style of writing. Greek theatre or Greek Drama came into its own between 600 and 200 BC in the ancient city of Athens. ... Atonality in a general sense describes music that departs from the system of tonal hierarchies that are said to characterized the sound of classical European music from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. ...

He won a number of major prizes.

He taught advanced harmony at the Greek National Conservatory for twenty years, until he was appointed vice president of the conservatory in 1997. Harmony is the use and study of pitch simultaneity and chords, actual or implied, in music. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

He played in the Opera Orchestra as a violist and later served on the board of the [{Greek National Orchestra]]. He was vice president and honorary president of the Greek Composers Union. A viola The viola (in French, alto; in German bratsche) is a stringed musical instrument played with a bow which serves as the middle voice of the violin family, between the upper lines played by the higher violin (soprano register) and the lower lines played by the deeper cello (bass...

His piece Ballade or Lullaby for saxophone and strings was written in 2000 and originally intended for violin and piano. The saxophone version was first performed in Athens in March 2002 by saxophonist Theodore Kerkezos and the Athens State Orchestra. He died in Athens. A violin The violin is a bowed stringed musical instrument that has four strings tuned a perfect fifth apart. ... A baby grand piano, with the lid up. ... Theodore Kerkezos is a Greek classical saxophonist. ...