1. Pancho Vladigerov was one of the first to successfully combine idioms of Bulgarian folk music and classical music.
15 Facts About Pancho Vladigerov
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Pancho Vladigerov marked the beginning of a number of genres in Bulgarian music, including the violin sonata and the piano trio.
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Pancho Vladigerov was a very respected pedagogue; his students include practically all notable Bulgarian composers of the next generation, such as Alexander Raichev, Alexander Yossifov, Stefan Remenkov, and many others, as well as the pianist Alexis Weissenberg.
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Pancho Vladigerov was born in Zurich, Switzerland, but lived in Shumen, Bulgaria.
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Pancho Vladigerov's mother Dr Eliza Pasternak was a Russian Jew.
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Pancho Vladigerov's father Dr Haralan Vladigerov was a Bulgarian lawyer and a politician.
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Pancho Vladigerov played the piano and composed from an early age.
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In 1910, two years after his father's early death, Vladigerov and the rest of his family moved to Sofia, where Pancho started studying composition with Dobri Hristov, the most distinguished Bulgarian composer of his generation.
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Pancho Vladigerov studied music theory and composition with Paul Juon and piano with Karl Heinrich Barth.
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Pancho Vladigerov twice won the Mendelssohn Prize of the academy.
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Pancho Vladigerov gained considerable fame in Europe in the 1920s when many of his pieces were published by Universal Edition in Vienna and released on LPs by the German recording company Deutsche Grammophon before being performed throughout Europe and the USA.
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Pancho Vladigerov's music has been admired by such diverse personalities as Richard Strauss, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Aram Khachaturian.
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Pancho Vladigerov's solo piano music has been performed in concert several times in the UK recently by Bulgarian-born pianist Valentina Seferinova, who continues to champion his music.
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Pancho Vladigerov's most performed and emblematic work is unquestionably Vardar Rhapsody, known as Bulgarian Rhapsody.
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The Intellectual Legacy of Pancho Vladigerov Foundation was founded in the autumn of 2006 by Pancho Vladigerov Jr.