Всичко, което върви през хората, по хората, е важно за фолклориста... Академик Николай Кауфман на 90 години
Anything that goes through the people and among the people, is important to folk studies... Academician Nikolai Kaufman’s 90th anniversary

Summary/Abstract: Occasioned by Academician Nikolai Kaufman’s 90th anniversary, the paper recalls his wide-ranging and versatile activity of a fieldworker, scholar, folklorist, researcher and composer. All areas of his work are syncretically related: his fieldwork is correlatable with his work of an ethnomusicologist as empirical studies evolving into science. During his recording and collecting activities, he discovered the examples to be then developed by him into choral arrangements or ingenious ensemble pieces. The paper points to the enormous practical significance of Kaufman’s intensive fieldwork, the fundamental importance of his research production and the diversity of his oeuvre of a composer. The outlined main thematic areas of his work of a folklorist – the traditional rural music, urban folk music and topical issues of folk studies – establish the heuristic worth of his research work. The vantage point of, reflections on and evaluations by Kaufman himself of his own professional interests, experience and achievements in interviews given by him, are also provided.

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