Николай Ив. Николаев в защита на „старобългарското църковно пеене“
Nikolay Iv. Nikolaev in favour of ‘Old Bulgarian liturgical chant‘

Summary/Abstract: No studies have been devoted recently to such an eminent musicologist as Nikolay Iv. Nikolaev (1852 – 1938). The paper is the first contemporary reading of less known facts about his activities in church music allowing to trace indepth his endeavours adding new strokes to his altogether less wellexplored career. Special attention is devoted to his role in collecting and promoting of the so-called ‘Old Bulgarian liturgical chant‘ as part of the discussion about the ‘authentic Bulgarian liturgical chant‘ led between the 1890s and the mid-1940s. Against a backdrop of the shaping of the view of the old Bulgarian music during that period, the important role of Nikolay Nikolaev both in the discussion and in the entire development of the new Bulgarian church music is under consideration.

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