Dimitrios Stergios Lalas or Lallas ( el, Δημήτριος Στέργιος Λάλας ή Λάλλας) was a significant

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composer and musician.

Biography

Lalas was born in 1844 or 1848 in

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, then

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(now

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). He studied in Monastir,

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and later in 1868-70 in the

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. In 1870 he appears to have met the great

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composer

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and by 1876 he was his student and collaborator. He soon became the conductor of an

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, while in

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he replaced the conductor Hans Richter at a concert of Wagner's works in the presence of Wagner himself. During 1877-1881 he taught music in

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, and later settled in Thessaloniki. He was the teacher of

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. He cooperated with fellow

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, with whom he co-founded "''Macedonian Defense''" at the end of 1902, committees of which appeared in Greek Macedonian towns and villages, preparing its inhabitants for the upcoming

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. At some point, before 1906, Lalas composed a musical work on the Macedonian Struggle, entitled "''Makedonikos Paian''" (''Μακεδονικός Παιάν''). He died of

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in 1911 in Monastir, and his works were lost in 1917.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lalas, Dimitrios Year of birth uncertain 1911 deaths People from Bitola Municipality Greek classical composers Greek nationalists 19th-century Greek musicians Greek people of the Macedonian Struggle Greek Macedonians University of Music and Theatre Munich alumni Greek expatriates in Australia 1840s births Greek expatriates in Germany Greek expatriates in Slovakia Greek expatriates in Turkey Deaths from cholera