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.
Dimitri Terzakis studied composition with Yannis Papaioannou at the Athens Hellenic Conservatory and with Bernd Alois Zimmermann in Cologne, Germany.
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.