Dimitar Nenow

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Dimitar Nenow (also Dimitar Nenov, Bulgarian Димитър Ненов ; born December 19, 1901 in Rasgrad , † August 30, 1953 in Sofia ) was a Bulgarian composer.

Dimitar Nenow with the Duchow Quintet in Sofia in 1934

Nenow studied piano with Andrej Stojanow . In 1920 he went to Dresden to study architecture at the Technical University . At the same time he took piano lessons from Karl Fehling at the city's conservatory and lessons in music theory and composition from Theodor Blumer and Paul Büttner . Between 1925 and 1927 he was the musical director of the Thea Jolles Ballet .

After completing his studies, Nenow returned to Bulgaria in 1927 and worked as an architect at the Ministry of Construction until 1930, and from 1929 to 1932 at the railway directorate. In 1931 he completed his piano training with Egon Petri in Zakopane , and completed his training at the Bologna Conservatory the following year.

In 1933 Nenow was one of the founding members of the Society for Contemporary Music in Sofia, and he became its secretary and treasurer. He also gave piano lessons and ran a private conservatory in the mid-1930s. In 1943 he became a piano professor at the State Music Academy . His students included u. a. Lasar Nikolow and Stefan Remenkow .

As a piano soloist, Nenow performed in Bulgaria a. a. also in Denmark, Germany, Italy, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Greece, Syria, Palestine and Egypt. Between 1937 and 1947 he led a piano trio with the violinist Christo Obreschkow (Hristo Obreshkov) - later replaced by Petar Christoskow (Petar Hristoskov) - and the cellist Konstantin Popow. As a chamber musician, he has also performed with the violinist Vladimir Avramov (Vladimir Avramov). In the communist regime from 1944 onwards he was at times accused of “western modernism”. He was later rehabilitated and awarded the Dimitrov Prize in 1952 .

Nenow composed a. a. a symphony, a ballad and four suites for orchestra, a piano concerto and two ballads for piano and orchestra, a symphonic poem for soloists, choir and orchestra, orchestral songs, chamber music and piano works. Stylistically, he combined elements of Bulgarian folk music with influences from late Romanticism and early modernism in the wake of Alexander Scriabin .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Svetlana Nejčeva:  Nenov, Dimităr. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 12 (Mercadante - Paix). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2004, ISBN 3-7618-1122-5  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  2. ↑ a b c Mariyana Buleva, Asen Atanasov:  Nenov, Dimitar. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  3. ^ Ivo Varbanov: Reviving a Bulgarian Blockbuster. In: www.kickstarter.com. 2015, accessed January 22, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Biography and list of works at Union of Bulgarian Composers
  5. ↑ a b CV at Hyperion Records
personal data
SURNAME Nenow, Dimitar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nenov, Dimitar; Ненов, Димитър
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Rasgrad
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1953
Place of death Sofia