Dimiter Christoff

Works

Selected works

Stage musk:

Operas:

“A Game” (staged in 1978 in Varna); Chamber Opera “The Goldfish” (premiered in 1983 by the Chamber Opera of Blagoevgrad). h3(red-dot). For symphony orchestra:

Symphonies:

Symphony in Two Movements (1) (1958), 2 (1964), 3 (1968) Aria for small symphony/string orchestra (1959).Symphonic Poem (1957); Overture (1960); Symphonic Episodes (1962); Concert Miniatures (1970); Overture with Fanfares (1973); “Quasi fantasia – a game” (1981); “Play with Violoncellos” (1983); “Perpetui Mobili in Pianissimi” (1986); “Groups With Small Solos of the Conductor” (1987); “Silent Adagio” (1988); “Cantilena Over Two Tones”(1989); “Carousel of Suffering” (1990); “Crash Down of the Mute” (1991); “Up-High – I Am Looking for You” (1993); “It Streams, It Runs Out” (1993); “I Rise in the Chaos” (1994); “I Set It Ajar, Peep In” (1995); “It is Shining Up There” (1997); “It Was Predicted” (1999); “It Is Very Quiet Here” (2000). “Vibrating-Burning” (without wind instr.) ( 2004), “Agitato in Su” for Piano & Orchestra (2005), “Toccata vaganta” for Piano & Orch. (2007). Concertos: for violin and orchestra ?l (1965); ?2 and ?3 (1996); for violoncello and orchestra (1969); for piano and orchestra ?l (1955), ?2 (for piano and big wind symphony orchestra (version for a smaller wind orchestra) (1982); ?3 “Angel in Heaven” (1991). For string orchestra: Sinfonietta (1956), Chamber Suite for two piccolos, 13 strings, percussion and piano (1966); Concert Miniatures (1970); “Gone with the Wind”(1991); “Wait for Yours Pizzicati!” (1994); “Cold and Hot” (2001); Concert Variations for strings and piano on a theme from Beethoven’s Eroica (2002). “J’incline ma tête devant Toi” for Violoncello solo and Strings (2002).

Chamber music:

“Quite Happy Light” for clarinet and percussion (2001) “Suite in 3/4 without tutti of the 12 (or 8) instruments (1983); “Book for 12 Violoncellos Joining One after Another (1988); “Three canons for three violins accompanied by three instruments playing on three tones (1981); “Marches almost without conductor” for flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, piano and conductor (1988); “January” for four readers and percussion performers after Yordan Radichkov (1989); “Drop, drop, endless drops…” for wind quintet (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn) (1993).Quartets: for wind instruments (1954), Concert Miniatures for string quartet (1970), String Quartet (1970), Quartet for flute, viola, harp and harpsichord (1972). “Give Me Peace” for flute, viola, harp and harpsichord (1993); “The Double Bass Sets Off for Heaven” for violin, viola, bassoon and double bass (1993).Concerto for three military drums (1967); “I Want Your Beatitude” for flute, violin and violoncello (1993). For violoncello and piano: Sonata (1953), “Ricercari” (1986), “The Violoncello Abandons the Piano Right Hand” (1992). Two Dances for trumpet and piano (1960); “Continuous convulsion” for violoncello and harp (2001).“Sad bows” for two violins or violin and viola (1995).“Beautiful for 2” for flute and harp (2006); Sonata for Flute & Piano (2005).For violoncello: Sonata (1965); “Thoughts About a Lonely Violoncello (1991). 24 studies for harp (2002-2007)For piano: Two improvisations (1957); Sonatas for piano: l (1962), 2, 3, 4 (1974), .5& 6 (1992), 7&8 (1994), 9& 10 & 11 (1997), 12 (1998), 13 (2000), 14 (2001), 15 (2002), 16 (2003), 17 & 18 (2004), 19 & 20 (2005), 21 & 22 (2006), 23 & 24 (2007);Concert Miniatures (1970); “Tango for You, Buddies” (1984); Chaconne (1984); “Toccata for All Soul’s Day” (1992); “Hoods after a Torrential Rain” – seven pieces (1992).

Piano ensembles:

“Welcome With Us” for two pianos, eight hands (1983); “I Am Walking Over There” for piano, four hands (1998); “I Go down, I Go up” for piano, six hands (1998), Sonata for two pianos, four hands (1999), “The Horrible Installation” for pianist and three assistants (1999); “Nothing ironical” for seven left hands on one piano (2000).

Vocal music:

Three songs for bass and piano, lyrics by Nikola Vaptzarov (1961); First and Second Cycle of songs for soprano and piano, lyrics by Pencho Slaveykov (1981); “Choir Book” of 21 a capella canons on traditional texts (1982); Three Songs “Hardly theatralised” for choire (1982); Cycle of four songs for soprano and piano after Peyo Yavorov (1985); “Three Recitations With Singing” for baritone and piano after Peyo Yavorov (1992); “Easter”, 9 songs for soprano and piano (2003)Selected books (published in Bulgarian):Western Horizons. Music Travel Notes. FRG, France, Holland, the USA (Sofia, 1966).Composition Problems in the Fugues of the Well-Tempered Clavier by Bach (Sofia, 1968).Polyphony (in co-authorship with Zdravko Manolov (Sofia, 1965); Textbook of Polyphony (Sofia, 2001, with Angel Angelov).Hypothesis on Polyphonic Structure (Sofia, 1970).Composer and Social Consciousness. On the Third Music Practice (Sofia, 1975).On the Theoretical Aspects of Melody. Vol. 1: Analytical Approach to Melody (Sofia, 1973); Vol. 2: Classification of the Melodic Manifestations (Sofia, 1982); Vol. 3: The Melodic Phenomenon (Sofia, 1988). Etc.Selected literature on him (in Bulgarian): Lalova, K. Literature-Theatric and Music-Dramaturgic Aspects of The Playful (Based on the Opera “Game” by Dimiter Christoff (Sofia, 2002).Chokoeva-Angelova, B. Monologue Statute in Violoncello Opera of Dimiter Christoff (Polyphonic Transformations of Structures) (Sofia, 2006) Etc.