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, which attracts many elite musicians. The festival was established in 1961 as an initiative within the frames of the Bulgarian-

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cultural cooperation, and is hosted by the Municipality of Rousse. Along its history the music event engaged a wide circle of national and international institutions, such as the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture, the Union of the Bulgarian composers,

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, and more recently

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– the

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in Bulgaria, and the Institut Francais – Sofia among others. The festival has hosted a number of premieres, opuses specifically composed for it, and remarkable visits, one of the most memorable being Dmitri Shostakovich's visit in 1965, when the premiere of '' Katerina Ismailova'' was staged by the Rousse State Opera.

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