Acad. Dimitar Hristov has died

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 at the Institute of Music (now Department of Music, Institute of Art Studies, 1969–2005), editor-in-chief of the Bulgarian Musicology journal in the period 1989–2006, a composer of an impressive oeuvre, a scholar and teacher strongly influencing his students and followers.
Acad. Dimitar Hristov’s scholarly work is to a large 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 invaluable 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.

May he rest in piece!

Department of Music