Giorgis Koutsourelis

{{Short description|Greek composer}}

Composer Giorgis Koutsourelis was born at Kissamos, Crete in 1914. He composed "Armenohorianos Syrtos", whose theme formed the basis of the song written by Mikis Theodorakis popularly known as "Zorba's dance".{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=x8KvAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT114 |title=Athens |first=John|last= Gill |date= 2011 |isbn=9781908493484|publisher=Signal Books }}{{cite journal |title=The "Invisible" Dimension of Zorba's Dance|first1=Magda |last1=Zografou |first2= Mimina |last2=Pateraki|journal=Yearbook for Traditional Music|volume= 39 |date=2007|pages= 117–131 |doi=10.1017/S074015580000669X |jstor=20465014 |s2cid=193492997 }} He died in Kissamos in June 1994.