”Everything in Us and around Us Is a Reflection of the Spirit”. Wladimir Pantchev – A Compositional Portrait
”Everything in Us and around Us Is a Reflection of the Spirit”. Wladimir Pantchev – A Compositional Portrait

Summary/Abstract: This paper investigates Wladimir Pantchev’s work from the perspective of the musicologist and singer Albena Naydenova, Wladimir Pantchev’s widow, focusing on stylistic aspects. The author presents firstly the three generations of Bulgarian composers, who created the compositional school in Bulgaria. The assimilation of the Western compositional techniques with which the composers model the folklore is common in the East countries. This is obviously in Pantchev’s works. The importance of the folk quote is underlined by the author. The quoted folk melody is treated by Pantchev in heterophony: the interprets have to improvise simultaneously variants of the folk melody. The composer used the controlled chance principle creating a texture, which he named “sound-carpet”. Two works of the composer are discussed: Concerto for double bass and ensemble on old church songs (2001-2002) and “Lieder und Musik meiner Vorfahren”/ “Songs and Music of my Ancestors” for voice and live electronic (2008).

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