Most sources agree that he was born in Heliopolis, Egypt, though one states he was born in Alexandria (Angermann 1994, 14), and it has recently been reported that a birth certificate has been found stating that the composer was born in Nicosia, Cyprus, though this certificate is suspected of being a forgery (Lucciano 2000, xv).
University of Cambridge.
There is some disagreement about Christou"s birth, the date of which is given by some authorities as 8 January (Lucciano 2000, xv. Leotsakos 2001), while others state 9 January (Slonimsky 1995, 227. Stewart 1999). In 1948 he gained an Master of Arts in philosophy after having studied with Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell in Cambridge (Leotsakos 2001).
During that time he also studied music with Hans Redlich and in 1949 travelled to Rome to study orchestration with Angelo Francesco Lavagnino.
He briefly attended lectures by Carl Jung in Zurich. He died on or the day before his 44th birthday in a car accident in Athens, Greece (Leotsakos 2001).
