{{Short description|Greek composer and musician}} {{Infobox person | name = Dimitrios Stergios Lalas | native_name = Δημήτριος Στέργιος Λάλας | image = Dimitrios Lalas.jpg | caption = Dimitrios Lalas in the late 19th or early 20th century. | birth_date = 1844 or 1848 | birth_place = Magarevo, Ottoman Empire (now North Macedonia) | death_date = 1911 | death_place = Monastir | education = University of Music and Performing Arts Munich | notable_works = "Makedonikos Paian" | occupation = Composer, Musician, Conductor }} '''Dimitrios Stergios Lalas''' or '''Lallas''' ({{langx|el|Δημήτριος Στέργιος Λάλας ή Λάλλας}}) was a significant [[Greeks|Greek]] composer and musician.
== Biography == Lalas was born in 1844 or 1848 in [[Magarevo]], then [[Ottoman Empire]] (now [[North Macedonia]]).<ref name=protothema>{{cite web |url=https://www.protothema.gr/stories/article/884049/dimitrios-lallas-1848-1911-enas-megalos-makedonas-sunthetis-kai-patriotis/ |title=Δημήτριος Λάλλας (1844 - 1911): Ένας μεγάλος Μακεδόνας συνθέτης και πατριώτης |last=Stoukas |first=Michalis |date=20 April 2019 |website= |publisher=[[Proto Thema]] |access-date= |quote=}}</ref><ref name=vlahofonoi /> He studied in [[Bitola|Monastir]], [[Thessaloniki]], [[Athens]] and later in 1868-70 in the [[University of Music and Performing Arts Munich]].<ref name=protothema /> In 1870 he appears to have met the great [[German people|German]] composer [[Richard Wagner]] and by 1876 he was his student and collaborator.<ref name=protothema /><ref name=vlahofonoi>{{cite web |url=http://vlahofonoi.blogspot.com/2012/02/blog-post_26.html |title=Δημήτριος Στ. Λάλλας - Εξαίρετος συνθέτης και πιανίστας με καταγωγή από το Μεγάροβο Πελαγονίας. |last=Sagiaxis |first=G. Th. |date=26 February 2012 |website= |publisher= |access-date= |quote=}}</ref>
He soon became the conductor of an [[Orchestra]] in [[Salzburg]], while in [[Presburg]] he replaced the conductor [[Hans Richter (conductor)|Hans Richter]] at a concert of Wagner's works in the presence of Wagner himself.<ref name=protothema /><ref name=vlahofonoi /> During 1877-1881 he taught music in [[Heybeliada|Chalki]], and later settled in Thessaloniki. He was the teacher of [[Emilios Riadis]].<ref name=protothema /><ref>{{cite book |last=Samson |first=Jim |year=2013 |title=Music in the Balkans |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yJ60SHL4R-0C |location= |publisher=BRILL |page=322 |isbn=978-9004250383 |author-link=}}</ref>
He cooperated with fellow [[Macedonians (Greeks)|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]].<ref name=protothema /> At some point, before 1906, Lalas composed a musical work on the Macedonian Struggle, entitled "''Makedonikos Paian''" (''Μακεδονικός Παιάν'').<ref name=protothema /><ref name=vlahofonoi />
He died of [[cholera]] in 1911 in [[Bitola|Monastir]], and his works were lost in 1917.<ref name=protothema />
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