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- Production Designer
Stefan Savov was born on 12 May 1924 in Dryanovo, Bulgaria. He was a production designer, known for Posledna proverka (1973), Barierata (1979) and Mazhe v komandirovka (1969). He died on 19 December 2004 in Sofia, Bulgaria.- Pencho Petrov was born on 26 June 1914 in Dryanovo, Bulgaria. He is an actor, known for Dve pobedi (1956), Die Antike Münze (1965) and Sledite ostavat (1956).
- Todor Popov graduated from the State Academy of Music in 1949. He studied Composition with Professor Parashkev Hadjiev, Professor Vesselin Stoyanov, Professor Marin Goleminov and Professor Pancho Vladigerov. He was a postgraduate student in Composition of E. Golubiov at the Moscow Conservatoire (1952-57). Upon his return to Bulgaria he worked as music editor at the Bulgarian National Radio and taught Harmony and Music Instruments at the State Academy of Music. He authored and edited music textbooks and song collections. He was deeply involved with the Bulgarian choral art.
He composed a musical play, an oratorio and other vocal-instrumental works; orchestral pieces; chamber music; choral and solo songs; film music; he also wrote folksong arrangements. His melodic talent was apparent in his first compositions, the marches Machine-Ginner's March and On Duty. In the 1940s his songs from the film Morning over Our Fatherland (Let the Harmonica Play; Partisan-Brigadier; Youth March) won huge popularity. Among his hits from the 1950s were Play the Accordion, Andrey and Write a Letter to the Frontier Guard, as well as the arrangement for mixed choir of the patriotic song "Otkak se e, mila moya mayno lyo" (Since Break of Dawn). Various ensembles performed a number of his social songs. The song "Stara si mayka ni loje" wrote in the 1960s or the impressionist-romantic songs Chorale; Three Watercolours; Good Night, etc. were included in the representative repertoire of a number of singers and ensembles. His music was awarded, recorded, released on LP and published.