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Assen Najdenow ( bg, Асен Найденов; 12 September 1899 – 10 September 1995) was a Bulgarian conductor.
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Assen Najdenow
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Assen Najdenow ( bg, Асен Найденов; 12 September 1899 – 10 September 1995) was a Bulgarian conductor.
Life
Najdenov was born in 1899 inVarna
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on the Black Sea. In his childhood, he learned the violin and the piano. In 1905, his uncle brought a grand piano from Russia. Already as a pupil he played in the city orchestra as a violinist from 1912 to 1914. In 1920, he studied composition in Vienna with Joseph Marx and piano with Paul de Conne. In 1921, he went to Leipzig, where among others, Fritz Reuter
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Early life
Fritz Reuter was born at Stavenha ...
was one of his teachers.Horst Seeger: ''Musiklexikon. In two volumes''. Volume 2: ''L-Z''. Deutscher Verlag für Musik VEB, Leipzig 1966, . Max Hochkofler taught him conducting
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.
Back in Bulgaria, he made his debut in 1925 with '' Mignon'' by Ambroise Thomas at the National Opera and Ballet of Bulgaria in Sofia. In 1930, he attended courses with Bruno Walter and Clemens Krauss in Salzburg. In 1944, he became chief conductor in Sofia. Guest conducting engagements took him to the Berlin State Opera
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(Mussorgsky's '' Khovanshchina'' in 1958), to Leningrad Mikhailovsky Theatre (Kirill Molchanov
Kirill Vladimirovich Molchanov (russian: Кирилл Владимирович Молчанов; 7 September 1922 – 14 March 1982) was a Russian and Soviet composer.
He was appointed director of the Bolshoi, at the time political disfavour had ...
's ''Romeo, Juliet a tma'' 1962/63) and to the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre
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(Verdi's '' Don Carlos'' 1963/64).
Najdenow specialised in particular in the operas of Mozart, Mussorgsky and Verdi.
He died in Sofia shortly before his 96th birthday.
Awards
* Dimitroff Prize – Gold/1st Class (1950, 1952, 1959 * People's Artist of the People's Republic of Bulgaria (1952) * Hero of Socialist Labour of the People's Republic of Bulgaria * Order of Georgi Dimitrov * Order of the People's Republic of Bulgaria – 1st DegreeFurther reading
* Lada BrashovanovaNaidenov, Assen
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at National Opera and Ballet Theatre Sofia (Bulgarian) {{DEFAULTSORT:Najdenow, Assen Bulgarian conductors (music) 1899 births 1995 deaths Musicians from Varna, Bulgaria