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Atanas Badev (
"Химн на св.св. Кирил и Методий; Детска Песен", публикувано в сп. "Художник", брой 19 и 20, София, 1906 година
Two compositions by Atanas Badev published in 1906. *
{{DEFAULTSORT:Badev, Atanas Bulgarian composers People from Prilep 1860 births 1908 deaths Bulgarian educators 19th-century Bulgarian people 19th-century composers Macedonian Bulgarians 19th-century Bulgarian musicians
Atanas Badev (Cyrillic
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: Атанас Бадев) (January 1860 – 21 September 1908) was a Bulgarian
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composer and music teacher. Per the post-WWII Macedonian historiography
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he was an ethnic Macedonian.
Biography
Badev was born inPrilep
Prilep ( mk, Прилеп ) is the fourth-largest city in North Macedonia. It has a population of 66,246 and is known as "the city under Marko's Towers" because of its proximity to the towers of Prince Marko.
Name
The name of Prilep appear ...
, Ottoman Empire
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, present-day North Macedonia
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. His family sent him to study at the Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki
The Sts. Cyril and Methodius Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki ( bg, Солунска българска мъжка гимназия „Св. св. Кирил и Методий“, ''Solunska balgarska mazhka gimnazia „Sv. sv. Kiril i ...
, but he graduated from his secondary education in 1884 at the First Male High School of Sofia. After the Bulgarian unification
The Unification of Bulgaria ( bg, Съединение на България, ''Saedinenie na Balgariya'') was the act of unification of the Principality of Bulgaria and the province of Eastern Rumelia in the autumn of 1885. It was co-ordinated ...
of 1885, Badev denounced the actions of the Bulgarian Secret Central Revolutionary Committee as premature because he believed that Macedonia should first join Eastern Rumelia
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, and then think of their common unification with the Principality of Bulgaria
The Principality of Bulgaria ( bg, Княжество България, Knyazhestvo Balgariya) was a vassal state under the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire. It was established by the Treaty of Berlin in 1878.
After the Russo-Turkish War ende ...
. Initially he studied mathematics at the University of Odessa. He studied later music in Moscow
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and St. Petersburg
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and was taught by, to mention a few, the great Russian
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composers Balakirev and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov . At the time, his name was spelled Николай Андреевичъ Римскій-Корсаковъ. la, Nicolaus Andreae filius Rimskij-Korsakov. The composer romanized his name as ''Nicolas Rimsk ...
. In 1888 and 1889 for the education of Badev funds were granted from the Bulgarian government as a special grant for a young talent. Apart from his choral adaptations of folk and children's songs, Badev is also the composer of ''The Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
John Chrysostom (; gr, Ἰωάννης ὁ Χρυσόστομος; 14 September 407) was an important Early Church Father who served as archbishop of Constantinople. He is known for his homilies, preaching and public speaking, his denunciat ...
'' (first published in Leipzig
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in 1898), one of the most significant works of this genre from the end of the 19th century. He taught at different Bulgarian schools. From 1890 to 1891, then, in 1896, he worked as a music teacher in Thessaloniki, in 1892 in Bitola, in 1897–1898 in Ruse, in 1899 in Samokov, and from 1901 to his death in Kyustendil. In 1904 Atanas Badev presented to the Second Congress of Music Teachers in Sofia a report on the rhythms and metrics of Bulgarian folk songs. He died in 1908 in Kyustendil
Kyustendil ( bg, Кюстендил ) is a town in the far west of Bulgaria, the capital of the Kyustendil Province, a former bishopric and present Latin Catholic titular see.
The town is situated in the southern part of the Kyustendil Valley, ...
, Bulgaria
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.
His son, Petar, died during the First World War at the Macedonian front
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as a Bulgarian army
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officer from the 8th Infantry Regiment.ДВИА, ф. 39, оп. 3, а.е. 24, л. 12
See also
*Music of North Macedonia
The Macedonian music refers to all forms of music associated with ethnic Macedonians. It share similarities with the music of neighbouring Balkan countries, yet it remains overall distinctive in its rhythm and sound.
Folk music
The ethnic Macedo ...
*Music of Bulgaria
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Classical music, opera, and ballet are represented by composers Emanuil Manolov, Pancho Vladig ...
References
External links
"Химн на св.св. Кирил и Методий; Детска Песен", публикувано в сп. "Художник", брой 19 и 20, София, 1906 година
Two compositions by Atanas Badev published in 1906. *
{{DEFAULTSORT:Badev, Atanas Bulgarian composers People from Prilep 1860 births 1908 deaths Bulgarian educators 19th-century Bulgarian people 19th-century composers Macedonian Bulgarians 19th-century Bulgarian musicians