Music from the Balkans

[alegitor]

Svetoslav Obretenov (1909-1955), Bulgarian composer.

Obretenov - 6 Preludes.pdf

[alegitor]

Manolis Kalomiris, Greek composer, the effective leader of the modern Greek "national school" was born in Smyrna (today's town of Izmir in Turkey) in 1883 and died in Athens in 1962. His activities as composer, author, teacher, critic and manager shaped Greek musical life to a considerable extent during the first half of the 20th century.

He started his musical education in Athens and Constantinople and completed it in Vienna between 1901 and 1906. After spending four years as a piano teacher in Kharkov, in what is today the Ukraine and was then part of Imperial Russia, he settled permanently in Athens, in 1910. He founded two of the most important Conservatories in Greece as well as the Union of Greek Composers, he served for a time as director of the National Opera and in 1945 he was the first musician to be elected member of the Athens Academy. His large output includes 3 symphonies, and 5 operas and hundreds of songs.

Kalomiris - Pour les petits Hellenes, Cahier 3.pdf

Kalomiris - Cinq Preludes.pdf

[ilu]

Thank you for the Kalomiris's scores, I am looking for "Easy Piano Pieces for Greek Children".

I would appreciate if you or some PP Member has it and can post it.

Thank you and the best for all of you, your families & friends in this 2010.

ILU
México.

[Ferruccio]

Dear Alegitor,

thank you very much for your superb new thread ! There are so many new scores here !

Best for 2010 to you !

[alegitor]

Here is the complete scan of Stoyanov's 3 Pieces. Sorry of the inconveniences caused to the people that downloaded the incomplete file

Stoyanov - 3 Pieces_complete.pdf

[alegitor]

Thank you for the Kalomiris's scores, I am looking for "Easy Piano Pieces for Greek Children".

I would appreciate if you or some PP Member has it and can post it.

Thank you and the best for all of you, your families & friends in this 2010.

ILU
México.

ILU,

One of the scores I posted is volume 3 of the pieces you are looking for (label in French).

[ilu]

Thank you!

ILU.

[Ferruccio]

Here is the complete scan of Stoyanov's 3 Pieces. Sorry of the inconveniences caused to the people that downloaded the incomplete file

Thanks again !! This study is a really good one !

[alegitor]

Marin Goleminov (1908-2000), Bulgarian composer. His work initiated a music movement in Bulgarian culture marked by the use of Bulgarian traditional music elements interwoven with an original style and vision. He graduated from the State Academy of Music in 1931. He studied Violin with Professor Todor Torchanov and music theory subjects with Professor Dobri Hristov and Professor Nikola Atanassov. From 1931 to 1934 he studied at the Schola Cantorum in Paris majoring in Composition under Professor Vincent d’Indy, Paul le Flemm and Albert Bertlain. He attended composition classes of Paul Ducas at the Ecole Normale de Musique, as well as Theory of Music, Aesthetics and Literature classes at the Sorbonne. In 1934 he returned to Bulgaria and joined the Contemporary Music Society. He played the second violin in the famous Avramov Quartet (1935-38). He was among the founding members of a chamber orchestra at Radio Sofia and his first conductor (1936-38). In 1938 he went to Munich to specialise in Conducting under Professor Karl Erenberg and Composition under Professor Josef Haas and Professor Knappe at the Academy of Music. Since 1943 for over four decades he worked as Professor at the State Academy of Music, teaching Music Instruments, Orchestration, Conducting and Composition.

Goleminov - Pieces for piano.pdf

[fleubis]

Here is the complete scan of Stoyanov's 3 Pieces. Sorry of the inconveniences caused to the people that downloaded the incomplete file

Thanks again !! This study is a really good one !

I agree! This set is surprisingly rich and pleasing and very pianistic, harmonically interesting and with very effective gestures. This man knows how to write for the piano.