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Miltiades Caridis (09 May 1923–1997) was a German-Greek conductor.
Caridis was born in Danzig (Gdańsk) to a German mother and a Greek father. He was raised in Dresden, but his family moved to Greece in 1938. According to the biography [1] Caridis was thus the only member of his Dresden school class to survive World War II. After the war, he studied with Hans Swarowsky in Vienna. His career has spanned opera in Cologne, Graz and Vienna. He has also conducted the Philharmonia Hungarica, the Oslo Philharmonic and the Tonkünstlerorchester. He was awarded the Béla Bartók medal in 1981 for his contribution in fomenting the appeal of the composer's work.
He died in Athens from a stroke he sustained while he was rehearsing with the Ellinikí Radiofonía Tileórasi Greek National Orchestra.
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