The Most Famous
COMPOSERS from Bulgaria
This page contains a list of the greatest Bulgarian Composers. The pantheon dataset contains 1,216 Composers, 1 of which were born in Bulgaria. This makes Bulgaria the birth place of the 65th most number of Composers behind Kyrgyzstan and Indonesia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Bulgarian Composers of all time. This list of famous Bulgarian Composers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Dobri Hristov (1875 - 1941)
With an HPI of 44.50, Dobri Hristov is the most famous Bulgarian Composer. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Dobri Hristov (Bulgarian: Добри Христов; 14 December 1875 – 23 January 1941) was one of the major Bulgarian composers of the 20th century. He wrote mainly choral music, as well as some church music and music for the orchestra. Hristov was born in Varna, then in the Ottoman Empire. He graduated from the Prague Conservatory in 1903 (under the directorship of the famous Czech composer Antonín Dvořák). He returned to Bulgaria and helped with the development of Bulgarian music culture, using many Bulgarian folklore elements in his compositions. He was conductor of "The Seven Saints" ensemble and choir in the church of the same name in Sofia, Bulgaria between 1911 and 1928. He died in Sofia in 1941 at age 65.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as composers born between 1875 and 1875. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased composers include Dobri Hristov. As of April 2022, 1 new composers have been added to Pantheon including Dobri Hristov.
