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Year  XXV   2001    Book 1

1.  Table of Contents (German Version)

I N H A L T
M i g l e n a  T s e n o v a
Choral and Music Stage Tradition in the Culture of Plovdiv. Relations and Influences
/from the mid-XIX c. to late-XX c./ (Seite 28)
E l e n a   R.  T o m o v a
Ein Festival wie sich selbst (Seite 45)
A n k a  K u s c h l e v a
Das Volkslied und seine Vokalisierung.Rolle der Rede in der Organisation des Sprechapparats (Seite 71)
N e l y  B o j o v a
The Italian Repertoire of  Peter Raichev in the Years Beteen the World Wars (Seite 88)
Y a v o r  K o n o v
W.A. Mozart — Praktische Elementen des Generalba? (Seite 100)
K r a s s i m i r  D e l t s c h e v  Ein österreichisches Emblem des Barocks (Seite 104)

Rezension
C h r i s t i n a  T o s c h e v a
Anelia Yaneva: “Deutung bulgarischer Sujets” (Seite 105)

Mitteilung
A s s e n  A t h a n a s s o v   “Unsere Fahne ist dreifarbig ...” (Seite 108)
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2. ABSTRACTS
(in German or English)

Choral and Music Stage Tradition in the culture of Plovdiv:
Relations and Influences (from mid-XIX c. to late-XX c.)
Miglena Tsenova

Choral traditions in Bulgaria are ancient but they are still very much alive. The appearance of each of provincial musical theatres has depended largely on the existence of town choirs who, as a rule, included choral fragments from many operas in their repertoire. Even though the Plovdiv music stage art has a long tradition, the stable Plovdiv Operatic Theatre didn’t come into existence until 1953. The chorusmasters who perform choral fragments from operas with their students in schools are Angel Bukoreshtliev, Boris Kochev, Roman Spatarev and Marko Georgievich.
The first Bulgarian Children’s Musical Medley was formed in Plovdiv. From 1905 to 1911 its founder, Dimo Boychev, presents operettas for children. In this way he stimulates the development of operetta composition in Bulgaria.
Established back in 1896, the Plovdiv Choral Society, provided the funds and contribution in-kind for several serious attempts to initiate opera theatre in the town. Such initiatives included: The Art Opera (1919), Native Song (1921), The Plovdiv City Opera (1922-1923), The Plovdiv Municipal Opera (1933), The Plovdiv District Opera (1940-1941) and The Souht-Bulgarian Opera (till 1944).
The brightest figure in the state-owned theatre was the chorus master Mr. Angel Christov. He transformed the opera chorus into the most important component of opera performances and, indeed, it was the policy of the theatre under him that the chorus contribution to the theatre repertoire was for more than that of soloists. This in turn was Angel Christov’s unique contribution to the Bulgarian choral and musical stage tradition and culture.
The research under consideration highlights the fact that the Plovdiv theatre has staged “Antigona 43”, an opera by Lubomir Pipkov indicative of Bulgarian opera composition. The place of the chorus in Pipkov’s “Antigona 43” is compared to the one in Sophocles’ eponymous tragedy. The musical composition and the hidden massage of the choral input have also been analyzed. A sound record of soloists, chorus and orchestra of Plovdiv National Opera dating back to1964 is also an object of this analysis.
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Ein Festival wie sich selbst
Elena R. Tomova

Der Beitrag unternimmt einen Versuch zur Analyse eines Phänomens in der Folklore, nämlich des Folklorefestivals in Varna. Der Bericht baut — soweit möglich - auf dem Prinzip der “versteckten Kamera”. Einerseits wird das Treiben in den Straßen von Varna und auf den Bühnen beschrieben und andererseits die Geschehnisse hinter der Bühne — die Vorbereitung der verschiedenen Veranstaltungen.
Der Beitrag vermittelt auch die Ergebnisse eines sehr interessanten Gesprächs mit einem der Hauptveranstalter des Festivals.
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Das Volkslied und seine Vokalisierung. Rolle der Rede
in der Organisation des Sprechapparats
Anka Kuschleva

Schon seit dem Anfang des 19. Jh wurde das bulgarische Volkslied durch Folkloristen, Ethnographen, Musikwissenschaftlern, Komponisten, Philologen, Sprachwissenschaftlern u.a. erforscht. Dieses Interesse dauert auch heute an, doch die Art der Darbietung, die Tongestaltung waren über eine lange Zeit ein Geheimnis für die Forschung.

Welche Voraussetzungen werfen Licht auf dieses Geheimnis neben den weiteren originellen Wege der Tonbildung in den verschiedenen Folkloregebieten Bulgariens? Der Beitrag macht die Leser vertraut mit der einmaligen Singart. Das Geheimnis besteht in der Poetik des Volksliedes, in der Ehrlichkeit der Volkssänger und der über die Jahrhunderte gestalteten Melodie — eine Synthese von Wort und Musik, wodurch sie zu einem Vorbild der Vokalisierung in der Singkunst wird.
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THE ITALIAN REPERTOIRE OF PETER RAICHEV
IN THE YEARS BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS
Nely Bojova

The exceptionally stable vocal and actor’s training of Peter Raichev, in conjunction with his natural talent and universal professional erudition, enable the singer to “expand” his range of parts – roles by adding to the dramatic parts of Turridu and Canio, also Manrico from “Il Trovatore” almost simultaneously with Calaf from “Turandot”, without any of these roles causing a retreat from the recognition of the spinto, lyric and leggier parts performed by him. Already in the French repertoire he demonstrates this with Don Jose and Werther, and in the Russian with Hermann and Lensky, but it is the Italian roles, of which it is known that they have been created with the most consistently acquired and followed tradition of the vocalist’s emploi, that continue to astonish us with their equal value even today. At the same time there is no place for condescense or suspicion for “paid”  critics: recordings exist, even though only of arias, that are sufficient to make us feel the skill of the singer with which he creates his characters without regard to their author’s emploi.
Judging by starring parts of Peter Raichev on the great European stages, and also by the number of his appearances on the stage of the Bulgarian National Opera, it seems that in the center of his career – after all most close to his temper! — are the lyrico-spinto, and immediately following them, the lyrico-leggiery parts of his repertoire. These are the Italian  - Duca from “Rigoletto”, Rodolfo in “La Boheme”, Cavaradossi in “Tosca”,  Alfredo in “La Traviata”, Gabrielle Adorno in “Simon Boccanegra”, Loris in “Fedora” (according to his son, Ruslan Raichev, this is his favorite role, which he has played only outside Bulgaria), Ricardo in “Un ballo in maschera”, and also Conte Almaviva in “Il barbiere di Siviglia”, Ernesto in “Don Pasquale”, Tonio in “La fille de regiment”. An impressive range of parts which had given him the opportunity to unfold his talents and knowledge. About some of them Bulgaria learns from transcriptions of foreign review publications, and about others from extensive comments in the Bulgarian press. Others remain scattered in documents in various archives and as reminiscences – his own and of contemporaries.
With his active presence on the stage in Sofia, this for decades, and with the optimal control of his strengths and abilities, Peter Raichev noticeably influences the notions of the Bulgarians about the roles in which he presents himself.  Performed before him and in parallel with his appearances by singers such as Stefan Makedonsky, Panaiot Dimitrov — Otito, Constantine Karenine, Lyuben Minchev, and for a short time — Todor Mazarov, Georgi Belev and others, these parts acquire a special vitality and richness. They are remembered for the feeling of genuineness and real life they suggest. In his Italian repertoire Peter Raichev in a particular way, raises a barrier in front of the pseudoitalian style, in front of the incompetent choice of means and methods for the interpretation of the traditional repertoire, which often enters the conceptions, tastes and the criteria of cultures, born after their archetype in Western Europe.
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W.A. Mozart — Praktische Elementen des Generalbaß
Yavor Konov

Ausgehend von der Veröffentlichung Practical Elements of Thorough-Bass (1976) von Joseph Patelson Music House, New York, USA, unternimmt der Beitrag eine auf umfangreichen Angaben beruhende Untersuchung des Weges von Mozarts Abhandlung, angefangen bei der deutschen Ausgabe Fundament des Generalbass, angeführt in Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (17 Bde, München, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Kassel-Basel-London, Bärenreiter-Verlag 1949-73/R1989), über die Schüler Mozarts, die möglicherweise mit der Notwendigkeit der Entstehung und Herausgabe dieser Abhandlung verbunden waren, bis hin zu ihren ersten Veröffentlichungen unter Berücksichtigung der Entwicklung der einzelnen Verlage bzw. der Herausgaben bis heute.
Nach Darlegung zahlreicher “pro” und “gegen” der Urheberschaft von Mozart, wird die These von Baird Hastings angenommen, daß diese Abhandlung höchstwahrscheinlich ein Werk Mozarts ist und daß dieses “im höchsten Maße interessantes Dokument, das einen neuen Aspekt der Kreativität Mozarts offenbart, seine himmlischen Kompositionen und seine außerordentliche geistreiche Ausdrucksweise (...) ergänzt und selbst wenn es nicht nur von der Hand Mozarts stammt, mit Sicherheit viel von seiner Zeit mit sich bringt.”
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Ein österreichisches Emblem des Barocks
Krassimir Deltschev

Der Beitrag unternimmt einen Versuch zur ikonographischen Deutung eines österreichischen Barockemblems von der Titelseite des Buches über Laute, herausgegeben von Wenzel Ludwig in Wien (1701) und dem Erzherzog Joseph I. — In: Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik). Im Bären-Verlag. Kassel/Basel, 1949-1951, Bd. 1, S. 1313-1314.
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3. ARCHIVE

1999    Book 4

2000    Book 1

2000    Book 2

2000    Book 3

2000    Book 4

2001    Book 2

2001    Book 3

2001    Book 4

2002    Book 1

2002    Book 2

2002    Book 3


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