Dimitrios Lalas

Dimitrios Stergios Lalas or Lallas () was a significant Greek composer and musician. Biography Lalas was born in 1844 or 1848 in Magarevo, then Ottoman Empire (now North Macedonia). He soon became the conductor of an Orchestra in Salzburg, while in Presburg he replaced the conductor Hans Richter at a concert of Wagner’s works in the presence of Wagner himself. He cooperated with fellow Greek Macedonians, 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 Macedonian Struggle. At some point, before 1906, Lalas composed a musical work on the Macedonian Struggle, entitled “Makedonikos Paian” (Μακεδονικός Παιάν). He died of cholera in 1911 in Monastir, and his works were lost in 1917. References