Stefan Remenkov
composer

30.04.1923 – 30.10.1988Silistra – Bulgaria
Stefan Remenkov graduated from the State Academy of Music in 1950 majoring in Composition under Professor Vesselin Stoyanov and Professor Pancho Vladigerov. From 1950 to 1956 he was assistant professor of Music Analysis at the State Academy of Music. In 1956, he specialised in composition with Aram Hachaturian at the Moscow Conservatoire where he was warmly congratulated on his Concerto for piano and orchestra 1. He composed over 80 works, among them a ballet; symphonies and other symphony works; two concertos and a concert rhapsody for piano and orchestra; concerto for violoncello and orchestra; concerto-fantasy for violin and orchestra; music for string orchestra; chamber music – piano and string quintet; sonatas for violin and piano, for flute, oboe and piano; six piano sonatas, sonatina and other piano works; choral and children’s songs; film music. Leading symphony orchestras, ensembles and soloists performed his works. A substantial part of them was recorded by the Bulgarian National Radio and the Bulgarian National Television and released on LP.
Creativity
Stage music:
Ballet:
Nepokornite (Untamed Youth) (1969, last version – 1971).
Choral-orchestral works:
Hyperion – poem (ballad) for symphony orchestra with women’s chamber or children’s choir, after Eminescu (translated by Elisaveta Bagriana) (1967).
Dream Cantata (author’s retouch of the symphony poem Phaeton for symphony and women’s or children’s choir, 1968-69).
Works for symphony orchestra:
Symphony in Classical Style (1960); Children’s Symphony (1961).
Symphonies:
Symphony N1 (1965); Symphony N2 (1968); Symphony N3 (1971). Suite From Distant Lands (1952). Sinfonietta (1960).
Symphonic Poem Phaeton based on Ovids Metamorphoses (1966).
Ballet Suite 1 from the ballet Rebellious Youth (1970).
Suite From Distant Lands (1952).
Divertimento (1962).
Concertos:
Concerto for piano and orchestra N1 (1953); Concerto for piano and orchestra N2 (1969); Concerto for violoncello and orchestra (1964); Concerto Fantasy for violin and orchestra (1980); Concert Rhapsody for piano and orchestra (1981).
Works for string orchestra:
Prelude and Dance (1957).
Chamber Music:
Piano Quintet; String Quintet.
String quartets: N1 (1959); N2 (1959-60).
Sonatas for:
violin and piano (1955); flute, oboe and piano (1979).
Watercolour and Humoresqe for violin (viola) and piano (1950).
Three songs for high voice and piano.
For piano:
Five pieces (1939); Two pieces (1941); Panorama (1948); Sonatina (1949); Ten Preludes (1955); Sonata Concertante (1963-64); Six Sonatas (1944, 1948, 1949, 1958, 1959-62, 1980).
Film music:
People of Dimitrovgrad, directed by Nikola Korabov (1956).