За православната духовност в творчеството на Иван Спасов от 90-те години
About the Orthodox Spirituality in the Works of Ivan Spassov in the 1990s

Summary/Abstract: The article contains arguments in favour of the author’s thesis about the Orthodox spiritual belonging of the eminent composer of modem Bulgarian music Ivan Spassov; according to the author this belonging manifests itself intuitively, subconsciously. The following works of Spassov from the 1990s are analyzed: Holy Bulgarian Liturgy for female choir, an acolyte, a solo tenor and organ, after canonic ecclesiastical Slavonic, Latin texts and the Holy Gospel of Luke, Miserere after Psalm 50, 51 for female choir, soprano 1,2 and alt 1,2 soli, Easter music about the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus, Mesa, Bulgarian passion. A special emphasis is placed upon the theme of Resurrection, introduced by Spassov with which all works created in the style passion finish, which is assessed as a return to the original liturgy essence of the genre passion. Means of expression, dramaturgy, themes, musical forms are interpreted as a “feeling” of liturgy music in the spirit of the Orthodox religion. Thus Ivan Spassov achieves a link with the first generation of Bulgarian composers (the end of the XIX and the beginning of the XX centuries), who attempted to set the beginning of “music sacra” in Bulgarian music; the second generation of composers from the 1930s did not affirm such a tradition.

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