- NO RESERVE --2.50
Year - 1985 , - Sc# 3046- 3051
PAINTER - A. STAREISHINSKI
FAMOUS MEN ; BACH ; MOZART ; TCHAIKOVSKY ; MUSSORGSKY ; VERDI ; TENEV ;
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (21 March 1685 O.S. – 28 July 1750 N.S.) was a prolific German composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity. Although he introduced no new forms, he enriched the prevailing German style with a robust contrapuntal technique, a control of harmonic and motivic organisation from the smallest to the largest scales, and the adaptation of rhythms and textures from abroad, particularly Italy and France. He is regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time. Revered for their intellectual depth, technical command and artistic beauty, JS Bach´s works include the Brandenburg concerti, the Goldberg Variations, the keyboard Suites(1)(2) and Partitas, the Mass in B Minor, the St Matthew Passion, The Musical Offering, The Art of Fugue, and more than 200 cantatas.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptized Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart) (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. His output of over 600 compositions includes works widely acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music. Mozart is among the most enduringly popular of European composers and many of his works are part of the standard concert repertoire. He is generally considered to be one of the greatest composers of classical music.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (7 May [O.S. 25 April] 1840 – 6 November [O.S. 25 October] 1893), was a Russian composer of the Romantic era. [Note: His names are also transliterated Piotr, Petr, or Peter; Ilitsch, Ilich, Il´ich or Illyich; and Tschaikowski, Tschaikowsky, Chajjkovskijj and Chaikovsky (as well as many other versions)]. Although not a member of the group of Russian composers usually known in English-speaking countries as ´The Five´, his music has come to be known and loved for its distinctly Russian character as well as for its rich harmonies and stirring melodies. His works, however, were much more western than those of his Russian contemporaries as he effectively used international elements in addition to national folk melodies.
Modest Mussorgsky
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (March 9/21, 1839 – March 16/28, 1881), one of the Russian composers known as the Five, was an innovator of Russian music. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music. Many of his major works were inspired by Russian history, Russian folklore, and other nationalist themes, including the opera Boris Godunov, the orchestral tone poem Night on the Bald Mountain, and the piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition. For many years Mussorgsky´s works were mainly known in versions revised or completed by other composers. Many of his most important compositions have recently come into their own in their original forms, and some of the original scores are now also available.
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (either October 9 or 10, 1813 – January 27, 1901) was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of Italian opera in the 19th century, although went well beyond the work of Bellini, Donizetti, and Rossini. His works are frequently performed in opera houses throughout the world and, transcending the boundaries of the genre, some of his themes have long since taken root in popular culture - such as "La donna e mobile" from Rigoletto and "Libiamo ne´ lieti calici" from La traviata. Although his work was sometimes criticized as catering to the tastes of the common folk, using a generally diatonic rather than a chromatic musical idiom, and having a tendency towards melodrama, Verdi's masterworks dominate the standard repertoire a century and a half after their composition.
Filip Tenev Kutev
(June 13, 1903, Aytos - Nov. 27, 1982, Sofia) - composer, conductor, public figure. Philip Koutev belongs to the second generation of Bulgarian composers. In 1936 he joined the Contemporary Music Society. He studied Violin under Hans Koch, a Czech pedagogue, first violin of the Sofia Opera and lecturer at the State Academy of Music. He graduated from the State Academy of Music in 1929 majoring in Violin under Todor Torchanov. He also studied Composition with Professor Assen Dimitrov. As a pupil and student, he was employed at the Higher Institute of Agriculture, then at the orchestra of the First Infantry Regiment, the orchestra of the Artillery Cinema, the Ufa Cinema and the Academic Symphony Orchestra. Urged by Maestro Georgi Atanassov, in 1930 he received a bandmaster qualification and began working in the army. The same year he was appointed at the 24th Infantry Regiment in Burgas at the position that had remained vacant after Shagunov, and worked there until 1935. In Burgas he also conducted the amateur orchestra of the music society Rodni zvutzi. In 1935 he moved to Sofia and worked at the 6th Infantry Regiment (1935-39), the School for Officers of the Reserve (1939-42) and the Military School (1942-44). From 1944 to 1948 he worked at the Political Department of the Bulgarian Ministry of Defence. He was responsible for the music activities in the army and for the cultural activities at the Central House of the Bulgarian National Army in Sofia (1948-51). In 1951, together with his wife Maria Kouteva, he founded the State Ensemble for Traditional Song and Dance (the today´s Philip Koutev National Folklore Ensemble), with which he set the beginning of the Traditional Music Choirs and Ensembles movement. He remained the ensemble´s Chief Artistic Director to the end of his life and contributed to its brilliant professionalism and its worldwide fame. The ensemble toured Europe, Asia and America. He chaired the Union of Bulgarian Composers (1954-72). He was awarded a lot of prestigious prizes and State orders. He composed works for symphony orchestra; songs for traditional music choir, mass and concert choral songs; film music, etc. He composed for the State Ensemble for Traditional Song and Dance works based on Bulgarian traditional tunes, which are still considered masterpieces and serve as a model to other composers who make such arrangements. His symphonic works created in the 1930s and 1940s such as the symphonic poem German, the Sakar Suite, the Pastoral for flute and orchestra or his vocal-instrumental suites, as well as those written after 1944 like the heroic cantata The Ninth of September (the first one in the contemporary Bulgarian music), Symphony of Youth or the masterpieces for traditional music choir Lale li si, ziumbiul li si; Polegnala e Todora; Dragana i slavei; Dimnianinka, etc., the music to the film Under the Yoke (after the novel by Ivan Vazov), etc, made his name as one of the most strikingly original Bulgarian composers.
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MiNr. 3344 - 3349 Bulgarien
1985, 25. Marz. Europaisches Jahr der Musik: Beruhmte Komponisten. RaTdr.; gez. K 12:13.
edb) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), deutscher Komponist
edc) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), osterreichischer Komponist
edd) Pjotr Tschaikowskij (1840-1893), russischer Komponist
ede) Modest Mussorgskij (1839-1881), russischer Komponist
edf) Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), italienischer Komponist
edg) Filip Kutev Tenev (1903-1982), bulgarischer Komponist
