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| 1899 births | |
| vladigerov, pancho | |
| 1978 deaths | |
| bulgarian composers | |
| swiss of bulgarian descent | |
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Pancho Vladigerov belongs to the 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 . He marked the beginning of a number of genres in Bulgarian music. He also established the Bulgarian composition and pedagogical school, his students including the best Bulgarian composers of the next generation. The pianist Alexis Weissenberg was a student of his. He composed in a variety of genres and was author of an opera, ballet, symphony music, five piano concertos, two violin concertos, chamber music, thirty-eight transcriptions of instrumental pieces for instrument and piano, fifty folksong concert arrangements for voice and piano/orchestra, twenty songs for voice and piano, ten choral songs with piano/orchestral, music for the theatre performances of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin , the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna , and the National Theatre in Sofia . REFERENCES
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