Last year, the composer wrote a letter to the General Secretary of the Communist Party, instructing him to organize the ceremony.
Greek composer and politician Mikis Theodorakis will be buried according to his wishes in Chania, Crete, on September 9, next to his parents and brother, the Greek Communist Party reported today, quoted by the Associated Press and BTA.
A dispute arose in the family over the place of burial of Theodorakis, who died at the age of 96 on September 2. His daughter said he would be buried in the village of Vrahati near Corinth, where he had a villa.
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But his son said on Friday that the family would comply. A court has temporarily suspended funeral plans after unnamed associates of Theodorakis intervened., referring to notarized documents that reveal his will.
Theodorakis wrote a letter to the mayor of Chania in 2013, expressing a desire to be buried in Galatas, a village west of Chania, where his father came from.
“My family does not approve of my wish; however, the law recognizes the right of everyone to decide where his body should be placed, “Theodorakis wrote in the letter.
According to a statement from the Communist Party’s political bureau, the body will be on display at the Annunciation Church in Athens from Monday, a day earlier than planned. The farewell ceremony will take place on Wednesday afternoon, and the body will be flown to Crete later that day. The church service and funeral will be on Thursday.
Theodorakis had a volatile relationship with the Communist Party, which he left in the late 1960s and then rejoined in the late 1970s, after which he was elected to the Conservative New Democracy in 1990.
In October, however, he wrote a letter to the General Secretary of the Communist Party Dimitris Kutsumbas, instructing him to organize the funeral.
“Now, at the end of my life, when I rethink things, the details are erased from my mind and only the ‘big things’ remain. And so I see that I have spent my most important, strong and mature years under the banner of the Communist Party. “That is why I want to leave this world as a communist,” wrote the famous composer.
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