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Zorba composer Mikis Theodorakis in hospital with heart trouble |
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In this file photo taken on February 04, 2018 Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis takes part in a demonstration, in Syntagma square in central Athens, to urge the government not to compromise in the festering name row with neighbouring Macedonia. Renowned Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis, who wrote the music for the classic 1964 film "Zorba the Greek", has been hospitalised in Athens for over a week after suffering heart problems, a hospital source said on March 7, 2019. ANGELOS TZORTZINIS / AFP.
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ATHENS (AFP).- Renowned Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis, who wrote the music for the classic 1964 film "Zorba the Greek", has been hospitalised in Athens for over a week with heart trouble, his hospital said Thursday.
Theodorakis, 93, was transferred on February 26 to the private Iatriko Kentro clinic in a northern suburb of the capital.
The hospital said Theodorakis had trouble breathing and atrial fibrillation, an irregular heart rate that can increase the risk of stroke or heart failure.
The composer penned what is probably the best-known piece of Greek music, the theme tune to Zorba, an instrumental which is still played and danced to around the world.
He has been hospitalised several times in recent years due to heart problems, including in August last year.
Local media said Theodorakis had been taken to hospital in secrecy last Wednesday and that his health was under control.
Theodorakis is also known in Greece as an icon of resistance against World War II Nazi Germany, as a militant communist in Greece's 1946-49 civil war and as an activist against the military junta that ruled Greece from 1967-74.
Theodorakis has remained a high-profile political campaigner, most recently protesting against the Greek government agreeing to end a 27-year diplomatic dispute with its northern neighbour, the newly titled North Macedonia.
He has also been highly critical of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, whom he has accused of betraying his left-wing roots by agreeing to impose EU-mandated austerity reforms after coming to power.
In 2012 he was in a group that got teargassed by riot police during an anti-austerity demonstration outside parliament.
© Agence France-Presse
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