People from Shumen Province - People from Shumen, Pancho Vladigerov, Ivan Dochev, Maxim Behar, Kliment Turnovski, Aslav Klonimirovi (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: People From Shumen, Pancho Vladigerov, Ivan Dochev, Maxim Behar, Kliment Turnovski, aslav Klonimirovi, Dobri Voynikov, Zhelyu Zhelev, Panayot Volov, Vasil Kolarov, Stoyan Danev, Racho Petrov, Todor Kolev, Ahmet Fikri Tzer. Excerpt: Pancho Haralanov Vladigerov (or Wladigeroff, or Vladiguerov, or Vladigueroff; Bulgarian: ) (13 March 1899 8 September 1978) was a Bulgarian composer, pedagogue, and pianist. Vladigerov is arguably the most influential Bulgarian composer of all time. He was one of the first to successfully combine idioms of Bulgarian folk music and the West European art music tradition. Part of the so-called second generation of Bulgarian composers, he was among the founding members of the Bulgarian Contemporary Music Society (1933), which later became the Union of Bulgarian Composers. Vladigerov marked the beginning of a number of genres in Bulgarian music, including the violin sonata and the piano trio. He was also a very respected pedagogue; his students include practically all notable Bulgarian composers of the next generation, as well as the pianist Alexis Weissenberg. Vladigerov was born in Zrich, Switzerland, but lived in Shumen. His mother Dr. Eliza Pasternak was a Russian Jew and a relative of the famous writer Boris Pasternak. His father Dr. Haralan Vladigerov was a Bulgarian lawyer. Pancho Vladigerov played the piano and composed since early age. In 1910, two years after his father's early death, Vladigerov and the rest of his family moved to Sofia where Pancho started studying composition with Dobri Hristov, the most distinguished Bulgarian composer of his generation. In 1912 Vladigerov's mother managed to obtain a governmental scholarship for her children to study in Berlin where Pancho and his twin brother, the v... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1698986