Assen Najdenow
Assen Najdenow ( Bulgarian Асен Найденов ; born September 12, 1899 in Varna , † September 10, 1995 in Sofia ) was a Bulgarian conductor .
Life
Najdenow was born in Varna on the Black Sea in 1899 . In his childhood he learned violin and piano. In 1905 his uncle brought a grand piano from Russia. As a schoolboy he played violin in the city orchestra from 1912 to 1914. In 1920 he studied composition with Joseph Marx and piano with Paul de Conne in Vienna . In 1921 he went to Leipzig, where u. a. Fritz Reuter was one of his teachers. Max Hochkofler taught him conducting.
Back in Bulgaria, he made his debut in 1925 with Mignon by Ambroise Thomas at the National Opera and Ballet Theater in Sofia . In 1930 he attended courses with Bruno Walter and Clemens Krauss in Salzburg. In 1944 he became chief conductor in Sofia. Guest conductors have taken him to the Berlin State Opera ( Mussorgski's Chowanschtschina 1958), the Leningrad Maly Theater (Molchanows Romeo, Juliet a tma 1962/63) and the Moscow Bolshoi Theater ( Verdi's Don Carlos 1963/64).
Najdenow was particularly specialized in the operas of Mozart , Mussorgsky and Verdi.
Awards
- Dimitroff Prize in Gold (1st class) (1950, 1952, 1959)
- People's Artist of the People's Republic of Bulgaria (1952)
- Hero of Socialist Labor (Bulgaria)
- Order of Georgi Dimitrov
- Order of the "People's Republic of Bulgaria" 1st level
literature
- Lada Brashovanova: Naidenov, Assen. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
Web links
- Literature by and about Assen Najdenow in the catalog of the German National Library
- Assen Najdenow at Discogs (English)
- Assen Najdenow at the National Opera and Ballet Theater Sofia (Bulgarian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Horst Seeger: Musiklexikon. In two volumes . Volume 2: L-Z . Deutscher Verlag für Musik VEB, Leipzig 1966, p. 337.
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SURNAME | Najdenow, Assen |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Naidenov, Assen; Найденов, Асен (Bulgarian spelling) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bulgarian conductor |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 12, 1899 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Varna |
DATE OF DEATH | September 10, 1995 |
Place of death | Sofia |