Aristeidis Moschos (Greek: Αριστείδης Μόσχος; 1930 – 8 November 2001) was a

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player and teacher of the musical instrument known as the

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Biography

Moschos was born in

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, a city in the Aitoloakarnania district. He was the fifth in a family of ten children, and his family was originally from the village of Pentalofos near

. His father owned a large amount of land in the region which he sold, then moved to Agrinio with his family, and opened two coffee houses. In one of the coffee houses, musicians from

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, and

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used to perform, while the other had a European orchestra. His father was gifted with a

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player that he used to play traditional Greek as well as other European music, and his brother played the violin. The family's cafés were visited by some of the most prominent 20th-century Greek musicians, including

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Marika Politissa
and

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. Aristidis Moschos first heard the

played by a Romanian musical group and came to love the instrument. Moschos' first teacher was a member of the Romanian group, Nestoras Batsi. He quickly learned how to play and started appearing in his father's coffee houses. After

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, he left

and went to

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where he attended the Greek Lyceum. Moschos toured all over the world with the Lyceum and collaborated with many singers, musicians, and actors. He made many radio and television broadcasts of modern and folk music. He also released fifteen records, of which three became gold and two became platinum. In addition, he participated as a soloist in around 150 other records. In 1985, Moschos ran the Traditional Music People's School which functioned as a nonprofit company, where he taught several musical instruments as well as

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. He was honoured by several municipalities and organizations as well as the

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. Moschos died on 8 November 2001.

References

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at the Greek Wikipedia''

External links

An Article (in Greek) on the Agrinio's newspaper ''Nea Epohi''. It has a photo of Aristidis Moschos.
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