/ world right now information/ Asen Dimitrov devoted 34 years of his life to the Sofia Opera and one other three years, /till his loss of life in 1960/ he labored for the Opera Studio on the Conservatory. It may be stated that, other than Todor Hadzhiev and Asen Naydenov, among the many conductors, he has the best deserves for our first music scene. Opera and symphony conductor, composer, choirmaster, accompanist, trainer Maestro Asen Dimitrov is among the many brightest, liked and revered personalities within the historical past of the institute.
He was born on January 6, 1894, underneath the signal of Capricorn, in Plovdiv, within the household of a modest customs official who was in love with literature and music. His mom sings many Bulgarian people songs superbly. His father observed his expertise early and purchased him a violin. He began taking part in within the junior highschool orchestra. After highschool he went to Prague to check on the conservatory. He falls into the category of Smetana’s pupil Vitezlav Novak. He studied for six years. 4 within the common class and a couple of within the grasp class. He graduated with honors. Learning and dwelling in Prague / then one of many world’s musical facilities/ marked him for all times, gave him lots. His commencement work in composition is the symphonic poem “Hadji Dimitar”, which he introduced on the Smetana Theater. Returning to Bulgaria, in 1915 he went to the entrance – the First World Conflict had begun. He was on the entrance at Dobro Pole till 1919.
After the top of the struggle, he based a chamber ensemble in Sofia, taught on the Academy of Music, and labored as a pianist-accompanist. Thankfully, / his and the Opera’s!/ he’s observed by the chief conductor Moisei |Markovich Zlatin, who attracts him as choirmaster, accompanist and assistant conductor. When staging essentially the most tough titles from the in depth repertoire of the Opera, the younger maestro takes on essentially the most accountable and tough a part of the work – studying the roles with the artists, and the choral components, the rehearsals with the person orchestral teams after which assembling the entire ensemble. Amongst his first duties had been such tough scores as Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Sadko”, “Kitezh” and “Snezhanka”, “Prince Igor” by Borodin, “Khovanshchyna” and “Boris Godunov” by Mussorgsky.
Even then, Maestro Asen | Dimitrov confirmed his nice musical qualities. His conducting mastery is characterised by educational precision within the building of the musical phrase, the truthful interpretation of the creator’s intention and the skillful balancing of the sonority of the orchestral and singing components. As well as, as an actual, born theater conductor, he cares an excessive amount of about clear and distinct diction, appropriate pronunciation, in addition to stage building and picture. In his work, he’s a born trainer, pedagogue, who trains and prepares singers for a very long time and patiently. Below his inventive route, quite a few distinguished artists from the older technology had been created and grew: Petar Zolotovich, Konstanza Kirova, Maria Milkova-Zolotovich, Diana Gerganova, Elisaveta Jovovich, Maria |Mitovich, Tsvetana Tabakova, Mikhail Lyutskanov, Todor Mazarov, Hristo Brambarov, Lyuben Minchev, Tanya Tsokova, Nadya Todorova, in addition to the technology after them: Katya Popova, Raina Kabaivanska, Yulia Viner, Lyubomir Bodurov, Dimitar Uzunov, Margarita Lilova, Nikola Nikolov… His spouse is the well-known singer from the interval between the 2 wars Elena Hristova -Gebel- Dimitrova, a very good performer of the central mezzo-soprano repertoire.. The listing is de facto spectacular. After him, few conductors work so diligently and successfully with the singers, maybe solely Asen Naydenov and Mikhail Angelov… It may be stated that he was in love with the opera and with the singers.
Asen Dimitrov set to music greater than 20 operas and performed 30 others staged by his colleagues. Amongst his high achievements are his productions of The Queen of Spades, The Bartered Bride, Masquerade Ball, Louise, The Favorite, Sadko, Faust / this opera he performed at its final efficiency in 1957/ . He carried out efficiently as a symphonic conductor and likewise as a choir. From 1930 to 1960, he was the chief inventive director of the well-known males’s choir “Gusla”, with which he made quite a few profitable excursions across the nation and in Europe. From strange novice singers, he managed to show the “guislars” into nice masters of the artwork of singing, extremely appreciated by critics and the general public. After them, he additionally found the expertise of the younger Boris Hristov. He defines it as: “a big however not but polished diamond”. He beneficial him to Queen Joanna, and she or he instantly organized for him a scholarship to Italy.
He teaches at BDK, additionally conducts a conducting class. His most distinguished pupil is the son of the well-known tenor Petar Raichev, the nice Bulgarian conductor Ruslan Raichev, who labored for a few years for the Nationwide Opera, in addition to for quite a few different theaters and orchestras in our nation.
I’ll finish with the phrases of his colleague and pupil, the conductor of the Opera and “Gusla”, Venedikt Bobchevsky: “Asen instilled in us his love for music, together with his instance, together with his each day work, together with his pure angle in direction of artwork and within the smallest particulars . He constructed the musical picture within the smallest element, till the completion of the massive musical kind. Asen (as all of us affectionately referred to as him) was a tough employee in rehearsals and a magician on stage. He captured the souls of each us and the viewers…”
Maestro Asen Dimmitrov
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