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“I gave it a Bulgarian injection”: Two Bulgarian second-generation composers \u200b\u200btalk about composing their string quartets.<\/p>\n
[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”4.10.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.13.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row use_custom_gutter=”on” make_equal=”on” _builder_version=”4.13.1″ _module_preset=”default” width=”90%” width_tablet=”90%” width_phone=”90%” width_last_edited=”on|tablet” max_width=”1300px” max_width_tablet=”90%” max_width_phone=”90%” max_width_last_edited=”on|desktop” custom_padding=”0px||0px||true|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.13.1″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”60px|40px|60px|40px|true|true” animation_style=”fade” animation_duration=”1500ms” animation_delay=”500ms” animation_speed_curve=”ease” border_width_all=”2px” border_color_all=”RGBA(0,0,0,0)” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.13.1″ _module_preset=”default” header_4_font=”Mulish|700|||||||” header_4_text_align=”left” header_4_text_color=”#000000″ header_4_font_size=”20px” header_5_font=”Mulish|700|||||||” header_5_text_align=”left” header_5_text_color=”#000000″ header_5_font_size=”30px” header_5_letter_spacing=”-1px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.13.1″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Sen||||||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ custom_margin=”-5px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]Those were rainy days [in Paris], I was cold and sick… I don\u2019t know whether it was December 1927 or January 1928… I felt quite torn apart, smashed, and in despair \u2013 I had many things on my mind back then. I received letters from home \u2013 my parents were worried about me. I wanted to write a letter to my father and I said to myself: \u201cWhat should I write to him? To complain would only make him worry further! I would have to make up something\u2026\u201d At the same time I started to feel nostalgic. I wanted to say: \u201cEnough of this suffering and this big lie! What is the point in studying; you see what it is like here \u2013 hardly making both ends meet, I am just suffering. To go back [to Bulgaria] and, as my bones hurt from the damp, to go and lie on the sand in Varna so that the sun shines on me. To enter the house where the people are so good \u2013 my mother and my father, to smell fresh bread and cheese. To get a good meal and the heck with it\u2026\u201d \u200b<\/p>\n
Engulfed in such feelings I said to myself: \u201cThere is not going to be counterpoint in [the quartet], nothing like that. Just these \u201ceights\u201d and \u201cnines\u201d [Bulgarian folk rhythms]\u2026 Neither can I reveal in there what seems to be the problem of the day\u2026 People are looking for a counterpoint even more complex than Bach\u2019s counterpoint. I can\u2019t match Bach\u2019s counterpoint, let alone a more complex one\u2026 Just do what your heart tells you to!\u201d So I decided to write this musical idea as a letter to my father [composer Panayot Pipkov]…like a musician to a musician. I started writing and I got carried away. Everything happened quite unintentionally, outside of any aesthetical considerations \u2013 I found a direction from purely human concerns. I was looking for an exit from these contradictions, which were incited by Nadia Boulanger\u2019s questions\/1\/ and [Paul] Dukas\u2019s trust in me, which I could still not justify even for myself. I believed that understanding is accompanied by such an in-depth knowledge of things, following concerts, possessing books, money, all that I couldn\u2019t come by. What could I do but write a letter to my father? So I started composing this quartet…\u200b<\/p>\n
I was afraid to show it to Dukas [Pipkov’s composition teacher at the Ecole Normale in Paris] \u2013 sometimes he loved being ironic. I had the feeling that if I showed it while I was still working on it, it would immediately become obvious how far I was from any kind of aesthetical views, if such are required. I felt as if I would come out as a person in whom something is beating, but it is so naive, simple and ordinary that maybe is not part of art at all. That\u2019s what I thought. I wrote the first three movements of the quartet and decided to show it to him only when I had finished it: even if he said something ironic, I would not stop working because I would have written it already. Otherwise I would stop working \u2013 if he said even one discouraging word I would throw it away immediately, as I had done many times.<\/p>\n
So until the summer I never showed my quartet to Dukas… Then I left for Bulgaria for the break. We got together [in Sofia] with Sasho Popov, Kosta Kirov, Spas Stanulov, Kosta Kugiyski and we started to have rehearsals \u2013 that was June, July 1928. Sasha Popov wanted to do me a favor, we still kept in close contact because I used to accompany him, and he was still playing the violin, he hadn\u2019t switched to conducting yet… At the first rehearsal, when they saw the music and began reading it they created such a chaos, such cacophony that I felt like taking the parts and putting them in the fire and saying \u201cSorry to bother you, gentlemen!\u201d I turned pale, mumbled something and Sasho said: \u201cLook, it is too early to talk. I don\u2019t know what you have written, but the truth is that we didn\u2019t play anything. This is the first truth, and what you have written we shall see later!\u201d And they started writing in bowings note by note, and they didn\u2019t know how to play 8\/8, 9\/8 \u2013 they didn\u2019t have ready bowings for the unevenly subdivided measures. And they started \u201ccrawling\u201d step-by-step and saying: \u201cYou\u2019ll be quiet, you will not say a word, you will just go downstairs to get coffees and pretzels!\u201d And I would go downstairs to buy coffees and pretzels and bring them upstairs\u2026\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n
We did 24 rehearsals. [Then] I announced my concert in \u201cAlliance Francais.\u201d<\/p>\n
I showed the quartet to Dukas after I wrote the last [fourth] movement — in Paris, encouraged by the success in Sofia. The concert at the Alliance passed at a very high level–everything was very well done…all the [critics] wrote marvelous things… After I heard the quartet I had a different self-confidence. I was also a little cocky — I knew that whatever Dukas said, nobody could convince me that my quartet was all that bad. And when we started the semester, I wrote the last movement in about 15 days. Then I took it to the class and Dukas liked it exceedingly well. He said to me: “Have you seen the Madonna of Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel?” I wasn’t sure I had so I went later and found a reproduction. “When it was done, Michelangelo was 24 years old,” continued Dukas. “One day you will have the mastery, you will compose perhaps many good works, but such things [as the quartet] are written only when a person is at your age. You will always be able to look on this quartet with envy because of the freshness which we associate with this age.” …And when he said I had found my way …when he gathered my bewildered colleagues…They all stared: What’s going on with Lyubo?… I became a kind of persona grata–when Dukas spoke with me, when he criticized me, he talked as with an equal, as with a person whose opinion he respected.<\/p>\n
(from Conversations at Pancharevo, recorded by Ivan Hlebarov, pp. 51-8. Sofia: Heini, 2004.<\/p>\n
This excerpt translated from Bulgarian by Iliyana Vishanova.)<\/p>\n
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\/1\/ Elsewhere Pipkov relates that after he performed one of his piano compositions on concert of Paul Dukas’s composition class, Nadia Boulanger congratulated Pipkov afterwards and asked him: “Does all of this happen under your sky?” And Pipkov thought: “Ah, there, you see? This is a complicated question… Under our sky… So they expect from me after all some specific sky, not theirs.” Pipkov continues: “And then the question grew more imperative: a search for individuality, more exactly a longing for individuality…” [Conversations at Pancharevo, pp. 47-8][\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.13.1″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#f9f9f9″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row use_custom_gutter=”on” make_equal=”on” _builder_version=”4.13.1″ _module_preset=”default” width=”90%” width_tablet=”90%” width_phone=”90%” width_last_edited=”on|tablet” max_width=”1300px” max_width_tablet=”90%” max_width_phone=”90%” max_width_last_edited=”on|desktop” custom_padding=”0px||0px||true|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.13.1″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”60px|40px|60px|40px|true|true” animation_style=”fade” animation_duration=”1500ms” animation_delay=”500ms” animation_speed_curve=”ease” border_width_all=”2px” border_color_all=”RGBA(0,0,0,0)” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.13.1″ _module_preset=”default” header_4_font=”Mulish|700|||||||” header_4_text_align=”left” header_4_text_color=”#000000″ header_4_font_size=”20px” header_5_font=”Mulish|700|||||||” header_5_text_align=”left” header_5_text_color=”#000000″ header_5_font_size=”30px” header_5_letter_spacing=”-1px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.13.1″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Sen||||||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ custom_margin=”-5px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]I intend [1935] to give a concert of my chamber compositions, [including] the string quartet in a minor, which I like the best. In Paris I played it on a concert with great success. The cello professor at the Schola Cantorum, M. Bergeron, who played the cello part (I played the viola part), expressed her opinion of my quartet with the following flattering words: “The third movement – Scherzo, could have been signed by the hand of some great master.” I had even composed it in a mere 2 or 3 days, in a single breath. Others liked best the second movement, a theme and variations on a folk melody, very rich in melodic terms. I worked most on the first movement of the quartet.\/1\/ It’s with great difficulty that I sit down to compose, but once I finally get started, I get extraordinarily deeply involved and forget everything else, living only for the ideas of my composition and their life. Even at night the course of the art work is being prepared in my consciousness…<\/p>\n
This summer (1936) I completed two movements of my new string quartet [No. 2] in C Major. I had thought that after my first quartet, which I like very much, I would struggle in writing another which would be the act of immediate creative inspiration and not give the impression of something articifically created. But reality proved my reservations wrong. I worked on the quartet away from the piano. My thoughts and feelings simply structured themselves in tones. My working conditions were ideal. I was based at a villa in the heart of Rila mountain, three kilometers below Rila Monastery. I didn’t have any other obligations and my spirit was not encumbered by the conditions of time and space. And the sacredness of Rila reminded me of the inexhaustibility of a spirit, which can transform itself into various forms. I now understood the thought of a philosopher who said that creative work is impossible without religion. Every work of art has its prototype in the mystic, where objects have no clear outline. Here the imperfections of the form disappear in the twilight of one existence or another. Now I’ve determined to finish the final movement of this quartet of mine at all costs, even though I barely have free time for creative work. We formed a string quartet: Vladimir Avramov (first violin), myself (second violin), Stefan Sugarev (viola), and Georgi Konstantinov (cello). Our group is good and most importantly, we have prospects to develop a good activity. And the four of us are good friends, something very important in collaborative work. We have gone before the public several times and have already shed our fear. For this year (1935-6) we have a series of radio concerts.<\/p>\n
(from Marin Goleminov, Dnevnitsi. Sofia: Soros Center for the Arts, 1996, pp. 56-8.<\/p>\n
This excerpt translated from Bulgarian by Iliyana Vishanova.)<\/p>\n
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\n\/1\/ Of the quartet’s finale, Roumyana Apostolova relates that “after [Goleminov] returned to Bulgaria, he again revised the fourth movement: ‘I put a Bulgarian injection into it,’ says he.” (Apostolova, Goleminov. Sofia: Muzika, 1996, p. 109)[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.13.1″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#fa4529″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row use_custom_gutter=”on” make_equal=”on” _builder_version=”4.13.1″ _module_preset=”default” width=”90%” width_tablet=”90%” width_phone=”90%” width_last_edited=”on|tablet” max_width=”1300px” max_width_tablet=”90%” max_width_phone=”90%” max_width_last_edited=”on|desktop” custom_padding=”0px||0px||true|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.13.1″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”60px|40px|60px|40px|true|true” animation_style=”fade” animation_duration=”1500ms” animation_delay=”500ms” animation_speed_curve=”ease” border_width_all=”2px” border_color_all=”RGBA(0,0,0,0)” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.13.1″ _module_preset=”default” header_4_font=”Mulish|700|||||||” header_4_text_align=”left” header_4_text_color=”#000000″ header_4_font_size=”20px” header_5_font=”Mulish|700|||||||” header_5_text_align=”left” header_5_text_color=”#000000″ header_5_font_size=”30px” header_5_letter_spacing=”-1px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.13.1″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Sen||||||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ custom_margin=”-5px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]I intend [1935] to give a concert of my chamber compositions, [including] the string quartet in a minor, which I like the best. In Paris I played it on a concert with great success. The cello professor at the Schola Cantorum, M. Bergeron, who played the cello part (I played the viola part), expressed her opinion of my quartet with the following flattering words: “The third movement – Scherzo, could have been signed by the hand of some great master.” I had even composed it in a mere 2 or 3 days, in a single breath. Others liked best the second movement, a theme and variations on a folk melody, very rich in melodic terms. I worked most on the first movement of the quartet.\/1\/ It’s with great difficulty that I sit down to compose, but once I finally get started, I get extraordinarily deeply involved and forget everything else, living only for the ideas of my composition and their life. Even at night the course of the art work is being prepared in my consciousness…<\/p>\n
This summer (1936) I completed two movements of my new string quartet [No. 2] in C Major. I had thought that after my first quartet, which I like very much, I would struggle in writing another which would be the act of immediate creative inspiration and not give the impression of something articifically created. But reality proved my reservations wrong. I worked on the quartet away from the piano. My thoughts and feelings simply structured themselves in tones. My working conditions were ideal. I was based at a villa in the heart of Rila mountain, three kilometers below Rila Monastery. I didn’t have any other obligations and my spirit was not encumbered by the conditions of time and space. And the sacredness of Rila reminded me of the inexhaustibility of a spirit, which can transform itself into various forms. I now understood the thought of a philosopher who said that creative work is impossible without religion. Every work of art has its prototype in the mystic, where objects have no clear outline. Here the imperfections of the form disappear in the twilight of one existence or another. Now I’ve determined to finish the final movement of this quartet of mine at all costs, even though I barely have free time for creative work. We formed a string quartet: Vladimir Avramov (first violin), myself (second violin), Stefan Sugarev (viola), and Georgi Konstantinov (cello). Our group is good and most importantly, we have prospects to develop a good activity. And the four of us are good friends, something very important in collaborative work. We have gone before the public several times and have already shed our fear. For this year (1935-6) we have a series of radio concerts.<\/p>\n
(from Marin Goleminov, Dnevnitsi. Sofia: Soros Center for the Arts, 1996, pp. 56-8.<\/p>\n
This excerpt translated from Bulgarian by Iliyana Vishanova.)<\/p>\n
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