Editing Manos Hatzidakis (section)

==Early life==
Hadzidakis was born on 23 October 1925 in [[Xanthi]], Greece, to lawyer Georgios Hatzidakis, who came from the village of Myrthios, [[Agios Vasileios, Rethymno|Agios Vasileios]], in the [[Rethymno (regional unit)|Rethymno prefecture]] in [[Crete]]; and Aliki Arvanitidou, who came from [[Edirne|Adrianoupolis]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Chrysopoulos |first=Philip |date=June 15, 2022 |title=Manos Hatzidakis: The Composer Who Shaped Greek Music |pages=1–2 |work=Greek Reporter |url=https://greekreporter.com/2022/06/15/manos-hatzidakis-the-greek-composer-who-sold-lottery-tickets-in-heaven/ |access-date=12 June 2023}}</ref> The family prospered from sales of [[tobacco]] grown locally, but the boy's father died in 1931 and his mother took him to live in Athens in comparative poverty.<ref name=Miralis2004/>

Hatzidakis studied music theory with Menelaos Pallandios, in the period 1940–1943. At the same time, he studied philosophy at the [[University of Athens]]. However, he never completed this course.<ref name=GreekReporter2021/> He met and connected with other musicians, writers, and intellectuals including [[George Seferis]], [[Odysseas Elytis]], [[Angelos Sikelianos]], [[Yannis Tsarouchis]] and especially the poet [[Nikos Gatsos]] who became a close friend.<ref name=Miralis2004/> During the last stages of the [[Axis occupation of Greece]], Hatzidakis was an active participant in the [[Greek Resistance]] through membership of the [[United Panhellenic Organization of Youth]] (EPON), the youth branch of the major resistance organisation [[National Liberation Front (Greece)|EAM]], where he met [[Mikis Theodorakis]] with whom he soon developed a strong friendship.