Triphon Silyanovski, ( bg, Трифон Силяновски) ( – ), born in

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, was a

n composer,

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and musical

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. He died at the age of 81.

Life and career

Triphon Silyanovsky graduated both from the Law Faculty of

Sofia University Sofia University, "St. Kliment Ohridski" at the University of Sofia, ( bg, Софийски университет „Св. Климент Охридски“, ''Sofijski universitet „Sv. Kliment Ohridski“'') is the oldest higher education i ...

and from the State Academy of Music, Sofia majoring in Composition under Professor Pancho Vladigerov and in Piano under Professor Dimitar Nenov. He also studied

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and Stylistics with

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(1941–43). In 1948 he won the first Bulgarian Singers’ and Instrumentalists’ Competition, an event that resulted in a number of recordings for the

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’s Golden Fund. After the instauration of the

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in 1944, his professional career was interrupted and his music was banished up to 1959. He was persecuted by the authorities for political reasons and was sent to a

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(1949–51); he was periodically jailed thereafter and was exiled from Sofia. He got a living as a labourer, played the piano in restaurants and taught

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and

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. Not until 1959 was he allowed to work as an

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at Sofia Opera. In 1973 Silyanovsky co-founded, with the director Plamen Kartalov, the Blagoevgrad Chamber Opera where he worked as music director until 1982. He then taught Score Reading at Plovdiv Academy of Music and Dance Art (1982–91). Some of his private pupils include pianists Vassil Genov and Ivan Yanakov (pianist) After the fall of the communist regime at the end of the 1980s he joined the staff of the State Academy of Music in Sofia and was made professor extraordinary (1997). Triphon Silyanovsky composed three symphonies; three concertos for string orchestra, piano concerto and other orchestral works; choral opuses; chamber and solo songs. Thematic material is often related to Orthodox chant. His professionally crafted scores are distinguished by an individual style, rigorous structural clarity, dense textures and complex polyphony. He authored books, studies and over 70 unpublished research works in the field of philosophy,

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, but also on problems related to music

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Selected music works

For symphony orchestra

* ''Symphony No 1'' (1952) * ''Symphony No 2'' (1954) * ''Symphony No 3'' (1972) * ''Piano Concerto'' (1968) * ''Byzantine Triptych'' (1969)

For string orchestra

* ''Prelude, Aria and Toccata'' (1946) * ''Variations on a theme B-A-C-H'' (1952) * ''Variations on a theme by Gluck'' (1970) * ''Concerto for string orchestra No 1'' (1953) * ''Concerto for string orchestra No 2'' (1955) * ''Concerto for string orchestra No 3'' (1956) Triptych 2010

Chamber music

* ''Sonata for oboe and piano'' (1956) * ''Sonata for violoncello solo'' (1965) * ''Sonata for violin solo No 1'' (1966) * ''Sonata for violin solo No 2'' (2002) * ''Sonata for viola solo'' (1967) * ''Triptych for flute, oboe and bassoon'' * ''Five miniatures for piano''

Vocal music

* ''Five songs for soprano and piano (left hand), based on poems by

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'' (1953)

Choral music

;''Musica sacra catholica:'' * ''Missa Ordinaria'' (1954) * ''Te Deum'' (1956; revised, 1996) * ''Stabat Mater'' (1963)

Selected books (published in Bulgarian)

* ''Idea. Faith'' (Sofia, 1992) * ''The German Symphonism. Style and Interpretation Problems'' (Sofia, 2000) * ''Art in Time. Life Rhythm in Art and Thought. Vol. 1'' (Sofia, 2002)

References

External links

* tp://adminbnr.dev.bsh.bg/HristoBotev/Klasicheska/110707_Trifon_Silyanovski.mp3 Bach-Liszt Prelude and Fugue in A minor BWV 543 played b
Triphon Silyanovsky
studio recording 1954, preserved in the collections of BNR.
Triphon Silyanovsky at the Union of Bulgarian Composers

Vladimir Dulov {{DEFAULTSORT:Silyanovsky, Triphon 1923 births 2005 deaths Bulgarian classical musicians Bulgarian composers Bulgarian pianists Bulgarian music educators 20th-century Bulgarian philosophers Musicians from Sofia Burials at Central Sofia Cemetery 20th-century pianists Bulgarian expatriates in Austria