Drei Bagatellen für Oktett

Drei Bagatellen für Oktett

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Werkverzeichnisnummer: 3841

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Erläuterungen

2002
DIMITAR TAPKOV
Three Bagatells for Octet

Dimitar Tapkov, born in 1929, graduated composition with Prof. Marin Goleminov from Sofia’s Music Academy, the “Pancho Vladigerov” State Academy, in 1956. He worked as chief editor at the Bulgarian National Radio, was Secretary of the Union of Bulgarian Composers (1962-65), Director of Sofia National Opera (1967-70) and Vice-President of the Scientific Association of Art Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. 1979-82, Tapkov was Rector of the “Pancho Vladigerov” State Academy of Music and currently is Professor of composition there. He has also been Director of the Sofia Music Weeks since 1997. Tapkov is holder of many national and international awards. His Cantata for Peace was awarded First Prize at the International Composer’s Forum in Paris in 1976.
Among his chamber music, some compositions of extravagante formate and style are to be found, for example: Children’s Suite for flute, clarinet and bassoon (1951), the Concerto for coloratura soprano and string quartet (1955), The Fable of the Mouse, the Turtle, the Rock and the Magpie for wind quintet (1979), and the Sonata for Clarinet solo.

The Three Bagatells for Octet are in the same vein of a traditionally constructed, but modern music on the basis of Bulgarian Folk. Some of Tapkov’s characteristics are to be found here: “the composer’s talent for drama”, “an associatively rich amalgam of points of support and momentary provocation”, which meens: a mixture of traditional features, known to the listeners from earlier music, with some selected points of provovation; and especially “his innate talent for laconicism”. The Bagatells are short and extremely concise, due to Tapkov’s personal conviction: “I am definite that contemporary music which is more condensed in terms of contents, should be considerably shorter.”