Greek resistance members: Iannis Xenakis, Sotiria Bellou, Aris Velouchiotis, George Psychoundakis, Menios Koutsogiorgas, Manolis Glezos, Charilaos Florakis, Napoleon Zervas, Georgios Siantos, Stefanos Sarafis, Georgios Kartalis, Yiannis Ritsos, Komninos P

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Chapters: Iannis Xenakis, Sotiria Bellou, Aris Velouchiotis, George Psychoundakis, Menios Koutsogiorgas, Manolis Glezos, Charilaos Florakis, Napoleon Zervas, Georgios Siantos, Stefanos Sarafis, Georgios Kartalis, Yiannis Ritsos, Komninos Pyromaglou, Nikos Beloyannis, Moisis Michail Bourlas, Ilias Tsirimokos, Dimitris Glinos, Nikos Ploumpidis, Apostolos Santas, Archbishop Seraphim of Athens, Antonis Vratsanos, Dimitrios Psarros, Minás Dimákis, Terpsichori Chryssoulaki-Vlachou, Vasilios Sachinis, Michalis Papazoglou, Elias Degiannis. Excerpt: Iannis Xenakis (Greek pronunciation: , Greek: G¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿e¿¿¿¿¿) (May 29, 1922 ¿ February 4, 2001) was a Romanian-born Greek ethnic, naturalized French composer, music theorist, and architect-engineer. He is commonly recognized as one of the most important post-war avant-garde composers. Xenakis pioneered the use of mathematical models such as applications of set theory, varied use of stochastic processes, game theory, etc., in music, and was also an important influence on the development of electronic music. Among his most important works are Metastaseis (1953¿4) for orchestra, which introduced independent parts for every musician of the orchestra; percussion works such as Psappha (1975) and Pléïades (1979); compositions that introduced spatialization by dispersing musicians among the audience, such as Terretektorh (1966); electronic works created using Xenakis's UPIC system; and the massive multimedia performances Xenakis called polytopes. Among the numerous theoretical writings he authored, the book Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition (1971) is regarded as one of his most important. As an architect, Xenakis is primarily known for his early work under Le Corbusier: the Sainte Marie de La Tourette, on which the two architects collaborated, and the Philips Pavilion at Expo 58, which Xenakis designed alone. The National Technical University of Athens, where Xenakis studied architecture and engineeringXenakis was born in Braila, Romania. He was the eldest son of Klearchos Xenakis, a Greek businessman from Euboea, and Fotini Pavlou from Lemnos. His parents were both interested in music, and it was Fotini who introduced the young Xenakis to music. Her early death, when the boy was only five years old, was a traumatic experience that, in his own words, "deeply scarred" the future composer. He was subsequently educated by a series of governesses, and then, in 1932, sent to a boarding school on the Aegean island of Spetsai, Greece. He sang at the school'