Градската хорова култура до средата на 40-те години на XX век като предпоставка за възникването на музикални театри в България. Тенденции
The Town Choral Culture until the Middle of the 1940s as a Prerequisite for the Rise of Musical Theatres in Bulgaria. Trends

Summary/Abstract: In the process of studying the way along which the musical stage art entered Bulgaria, the town choral tradition and the military brass bands cme to mind first. The development of the town choral culture before the establishment of the musical theatres in Bulgaria can be considered in three periods: - from the 1840s to the end of the 1890s - from the 1890s to the end of World War One - to the end of World War Two. The studies of the stage music in the activities of a great number of choral groups show some more general tendencies. The development of the Choral­ stage practice in the country proceeded from the performance of concert fragments to the performance of entire works in a stage variant. Increasingly the performed fragments and whole works prepared the choir singers and made them fit for participation in musical theatres, reaching a climax in the period between the two world wars. The inclusion of whole musical-stage titles in the repertory of the secular and church choirs as well as the establishment of a number of short-term theatrical institutions were so typical for the cultural and historical development of the separate towns that they show the urgent spiritual needs of Bulgarians to enjoy this art on the one hand, and to “make” it or perform it themselves on the other hand. The spiritual necessity to gather in communities such as singing and musical societies and choirs partly accounts for the presence of such a great number of choirs on the comparatively small territory of Bulgaria. The same spiritual necessity found its expression in the “community” of the opera spectacle.

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