Marin Petrov Goleminov ( bg, Марин Петров Големинов; 28 September 1908 – 19 February 2000) was a
Bulgaria
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composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music.
Etymology and Defi ...
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violin
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ist,
conductor and
pedagogue
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.
Life and career
Goleminov was born 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, ...
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Bulgaria
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; the son of an attorney, he studied law before switching to music. Having studied music at
Sofia
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Bulgaria
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Paris
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France
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, and
Munich
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Bavaria
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,
Germany
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, in 1943 he was appointed to the faculty of the
Bulgarian State Academy of Music in Sofia to teach orchestration, conducting and composition. From 1954 to 1956 he served as Rector of the
Sofia Opera, and as Director of the same organization from 1965 to 1967. In 1976 he was presented with the
Gottfried von Herder Award The Herder Prize (german: Gottfried-von-Herder-Preis), named after the German philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803), was a prestigious international prize awarded every year from 1964 to 2006 to scholars and artists from Central and So ...
of the Vienna University, and in 1989 was made an Academician of the
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (abbreviated BAS; bg, Българска академия на науките, ''Balgarska akademiya na naukite'', abbreviated ''БАН'') is the National Academy of Bulgaria, established in 1869.
The Academy ...
. He died in
Espinho,
Espinho,
Portugal
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.
Goleminov's compositions draw heavily on the traditional rhythms and melodic patterns of
Bulgarian folk music
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Classical music, opera, and ballet are represented by composers Emanuil Manolov, Pancho Vladig ...
, while also exploring more modernist classical trends. His son
Michail was also a composer.
Honours
Goleminov Point
Goleminov Point ( bg, Големинов нос, ‘Goleminov Nos’ \go-le-'mi-nov 'nos\) is the rocky point on the northwest coast of Alexander Island in Antarctica projecting 400 m westwards into Lazarev Bay southeast of the terminus of ...
in
Antarctica
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is named after Marin Goleminov.
References
* Don Michael Randel, ''The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music'', p. 320-21. Harvard University Press, 1996,
Further reading
External links
Marin Goleminov at the Union of Bulgarian Composers
People from Kyustendil
Bulgarian classical composers
Ballet composers
20th-century classical composers
1908 births
2000 deaths
Bulgarian conductors (music)
Bulgarian violinists
20th-century violinists
Male classical composers
Herder Prize recipients
20th-century conductors (music)
20th-century male musicians
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