Ранни експерименти в камерното творчество на Васил Казанджиев. Рефлексии на публичното и частното в идеите на композитора
Early Experiments in Vassil Kazandjiev’s Chamber Music. Reflections on Public and Private in Composer’s Ideas

Summary/Abstract: The present text provides information on three unpublished works of Vassil Kazandjiev. The idea is to unveil – besides the facts of unpublished early works, the horizons of a negative-silent-rebellious mood that accompanied the birth of modern trends and the creative limits in Bulgaria after 1945. The two completely unpublished works, manuscripts of which the composer recently discovered in his personal archive are Brass Quintet (1950) and the song In Flowery Alley I’m Walking (1951–1952). Most likely, in Dimitar Nenov’s archives exists a manuscript of a Sonatina (1948–1949), which today is not available to the composer. A little later were written Dueti (1952–1953), published in 1980, but still unperformed until now. The unpublished opuses (such as Quintet, Sonatina, Sonata and others) not accidentally are occupying a transitional space: they are sketches, etudes, free-atonal and dodecaphonic trials, which Vassil Kazandjiev showed only to the most trusted friends. The experiment was fragile, ambiguous – and the opposition with the informal/ formalistic excluded any attempts of advertizing it. As a first impulse, in composer’s early opuses stand out combinations of avant-gardistic with Baroque and Classical traditions aestheticizing and/or collages.

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