Проф. д.изк. Димитър Христов (2 октомври 1933 – 26 февруари 2017)
Prof. Dimiter Christoff, DSc (2 October 1933 – 26 February 2017)

Summary/Abstract: We lost a most renowned, influential and active figure in Bulgarian musical life, member and Secretary General of UNESCO International Music Council (1973 – 1979), a researcher of long standing (1969 – 2005) at the Institute of Music (now Department of Music, Institute of Art Studies), editor-in-chief of the Bulgarian Musicology journal in the period 1989 – 2006, a composer of an impressive oeuvre, a scholar with encyclopaedic knowledge and a teacher strongly influencing his students and followers, both Bulgarian and foreign composers and musicians. Prof. Dimiter Christoff’s scholarly work is to a great extent an auto-reflection of his creative quests and he is the only Bulgarian composer, whose compositional method is based on his own theoretical reasoning. His fundamental books, including his trilogy Towards the Theoretical Basis of Melodics, An Assumption about Polyphonic Texture, Fundamental Prerequisites for Composer’s Imagination, etc., have a significant impact on Bulgaria’s musical theoretical thought even now. Many monographs and extensive studies and articles published in academic journals and other periodicals dealing with culture were devoted to his oeuvre. Prof. Dimiter Christoff has made fundamental contributions to Bulgarian music and its promotion on the world stage, to Bulgarian culture fitting in with the international context.

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