Composer Giorgis Koutsourelis was born at

Kissamos Kissamos ( el, Κίσσαμος) is a town and a municipality in the west of the island of Crete, Greece. It is part of the Chania regional unit and of the former Kissamos Province which covers the northwest corner of the island. The town of Kissam ...

Crete Crete ( el, Κρήτη, translit=, Modern: , Ancient: ) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and ...

in 1914. He composed "Armenohorianos Syrtos", whose theme formed the basis of the song written by

Mikis Theodorakis Michail "Mikis" Theodorakis ( el, Μιχαήλ "Μίκης" Θεοδωράκης ; 29 July 1925 – 2 September 2021) was a Greek composer and lyricist credited with over 1,000 works. He Film score, scored for the films ''Zorba the Greek (film) ...

popularly known as " Zorba's dance". He died in Kissamos in June 1994.

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* https://web.archive.org/web/20070223184705/http://www.cretanmusic.gr/index.php?file=artists 1914 births 1994 deaths Greek composers Cretan musicians People from Kissamos 20th-century composers {{Greece-bio-stub