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Dimitrios Stergios Lalas or Lallas () was a significant Greeks composer and musician.
He soon became the conductor of an Orchestra in Salzburg, while in Presburg he replaced the conductor Hans Richter at a concert of Wagner's works in the presence of Wagner himself. During 1877-1881 he taught music in Heybeliada, and later settled in Thessaloniki. He was the teacher of Emilios Riadis.
He cooperated with fellow Greek Macedonians, with whom he co-founded " Macedonian Defense" at the end of 1902, committees of which appeared in Greek Macedonian towns and villages, preparing its inhabitants for the upcoming Macedonian Struggle. At some point, before 1906, Lalas composed a musical work on the Macedonian Struggle, entitled " Makedonikos Paian" ( Μακεδονικός Παιάν).
He died of cholera in 1911 in Bitola, and his works were lost in 1917.
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