Georgi Dimitrov (composer)

Georgi Dimitrov () (2 May 1904 – 12 March 1979) was a Bulgarian composer. He was notable for composing the music for the national anthem of Bulgaria from 1947 until 1951, Republiko nasha, zdravey!. Other notable compositions including Foot and Cross, Kulak, and The Chervenkov Way. He spent his youth and teenage years in Belogradchik and Lom, where he studied at Lom Pedagogical School. Dimitrov was raised in a musical family; his mother was a singer, and his father was a violinist. He would follow in his father’s footsteps and also pick up the violin, studying under Belcho Belchev and Obreten Evstatiev. In the fall of 1927, Georgi Dimitrov became a student at the Warsaw Conservatory. Among his teachers were Stanisław Kazuro, Kasimir Sikorsky, Grzegorz Fitelberg, Stanisław Viekhovich. During his time at the conservatory, he would study music theory, harmony, voice, conducting, and composition, along with his violin training. He would also come into contact with Karol Szymanowski, a Polish composer. Georgi Dimitrov married Lyuba Palikarova.Now needing to support his new family, he took on work as a high school music teacher in the town of Grueth. In 1931, he moved to Warsaw to continu