Atanas Badev

Atanas Badev (Cyrillic: Атанас Бадев) (b. Prilep, present day Republic of Macedonia, 1860, d. Sofia, Bulgaria, 1908) was a composer and music teacher. He is considered ethnic Macedonian in the Republic of Macedonia [http://www.manu.edu.mk/roots.htm MASA] and Bulgarian [Nikolov, Toma "Memories from my past", childhood] in Bulgaria. He studied music in Moscow and St. Petersburg and was taught by, to mention a few, the great Russian composers Balakirev and Rimsky-Korsakov. Apart from his choral adaptations of folk and children's songs, Badev is also the composer of "The Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom" (first published in Leipzig in 1898), one of the most significant works of this genre from the end of the 19th century.

References

* [http://www.onlinebg.com/kultura/my_html/2060/c_badev.htm Article about Atanas Badev]
* [http://www.manu.edu.mk/roots.htm Macedonian Academy Of Science And Arts website]

ee also

*Music of the Republic of Macedonia
*Music of Bulgaria