Background
His Father, Antonis, and his grandfather, Constantinos, escaped the massacre of Chios and set up a trading empire in Russia.
His Father, Antonis, and his grandfather, Constantinos, escaped the massacre of Chios and set up a trading empire in Russia.
He died in Istanbul in 1922. They later returned to Asia Minor. He was an influential cantor in byzantine music and invented his own notational system based on the Byzantine and Armenian systems his tutors taught him.