Which composer's setting of Elytis's 'Axion Esti' (1964) and Ritsos's 'Epitaphios' created a new genre blending orchestral music with vernacular poetry?

• A Manos Hatzidakis
• B Stavros Xarchakos
• C Dionysis Savvopoulos
• D Mikis Theodorakis ✓

Mikis Theodorakis (1925-2021) created the 'entechno laiko' (art-popular) genre by setting great Greek poetry to music; 'To Axion Esti' became a national oratorio, while his political activism made him a global symbol.