Bulgarian classical musicians biography

 

BULGARIA

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Introduction

As a country the modern history of Bulgaria, for centuries dominated by the Turks, only dates from the end of the 19th century, and her classical musical history is even more recent: the country's first generation of emerging composers, some of whom studied in Paris in the s and s, reached their maturity under first a pro-Nazi regime and then communist control, in both cases isolating them from the developments in Western music.

Most drew on the heritage of Bulgarian folk-music to forge an indigenous idiom. The principal composers of this generation were Pancho Vladigerov (), the father-figure of modern Bulgarian music, Vesselin Stoyanov (), whose output includes early examples of Bulgarian chamber-music as well as some colourful and zestful orchestral suites, Lyubomir Pipkov (), Marin Goleminov (born ), and Parashkev Hadjie