Bulgarian famous musicians

I would like to make just very brief and no way complete picture of Bilgarian famous names. As for singers,we indeed have a lot of them all over the world. I shall only mention Rayna Kabaivanska, Nikolay Gyaurov, Boris Hristov, Gena Dimirtova /very profound voice and dramatic play,she is absolutely first!/, Anna Tomova-Sintoff, the favorite Straus voice for Herbert von Karayan,Vesselina Kassarova and many others who sing now at almost all distinguished opera stages> Alexis Veissenberg, pianist; in the beginning of the century, the first woman-violinist in Bulgaria, Nedyalka Simeonova, a student of Leopold Auer; Stoyka Milanova, violinist,who had been many years on the English podiums; At the moment, the leaders of at least three world orchestras are Bulgarians: Vasko Vassilev, of Covent Garden, United Kingdom Vesko Eshkenazi, of Concertgebow , Holland Elmira Darvarova, of Metropolitan Opera, USA

If any other names come to my mind, I shall post in future.

They came into English as Ghiaurof and Christoff

Tomowa-Sintow

Weissenberg

It looks like the English transliteration depends on when the name became familiar in the West, and whether it passed through a Russian or a German version!

These days, Bulgarian names in Englishll probably look more like direct transliterations from the Bulgarian spellings, as you have done above.

<< If any other names come to my mind, I shall post in future. >>

Hey Pete, What about Zinka Milanov and Virginia Zeani ?

Yes, I wrote the names simply as they are in Bulgarian, but anyway, you inderstand them,yes?

Unfortunately, the only ones I've heard of are the ones whose spellings I gave above!

Should be Ghiaurov, of course; I recently upgraded my Netscape and now it can't keep up with my typing so I'm always having to go back and fill in missing letters & sometimes miss some.

At some point I knew Bozhedar Spasov, quite a talented composer. Is he around?

In another response I claimed not to know any Bulgarian aritsts. I stand corrected. Weissenberg is one of my favorite pianists. Unfortunately he has not come near my part of the U.S. A friend of mine did hear him in Tanglewood years ago during the Bernstein era and said his performance was electric.

Erm- Pancho Vladigerov? -Eric Schissel (has only seen scores and knows of a LP & CD...)