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Antiochos Evangelatos

Greek composer and conductor (1902–1981)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionMar 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ579624 ↗
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Antiochos Evangelatos (sometimes spelled Evanghelatos) (Greek: Αντίοχος Ευαγγελάτος; 1903 – 1981) was a Greek classical composer and conductor.

Biography

He was born in Lixouri, Cefalonia on 25 December 1903. He studied composition and conducting in Leipzig, Basel and Vienna with Max Ludwig, Kofler and Felix Weingartner. From 1933 on he taught composition and counterpoint at the Hellenic Conservatory of Athens. In 1957 he was elected president of the Union of Greek Composers in 1957. Evangelatos' compositions are based thematically on folk music, their style is Romantic and their elaboration contrapuntal.

He died in 1981 in Athens.

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“Antiochos Evangelatos” enters the record as greek composer and conductor (1902–1981). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Antiochos, Evangelatos and Greek can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1903, 1981, 1933, 1957—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1902-12-23. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Antiochos, Evangelatos and Greek.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 20, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q579624. VIAF identifies the subject as 20761538. The Library of Congress control number is nr95034109. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1903, 1981, 1933 and 1957.

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This entry incorporates text from “Antiochos Evangelatos” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.