Life

Dora Draganova was born in Sofia

Sofia

Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...

, Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

, the daughter of composer Illya Draganov. She studied composition at the State Academy of Music with Parashkev Hadjiev and Vesselin Stoyanov. After graduating in 1972, she taught piano at the Lyubomir Pipkov National Music High School and harmony at the National Dance Art High School (formerly the State Choreographic High School). She edited the choral literature magazine Native Song from 1971 to 1991. She won the first prize at Dobrich

Dobrich

Dobrich is a town in northeastern Bulgaria, the administrative centre of Dobrich Province. With 91,030 inhabitants, as of February 2011, Dobrich is the ninth most populated town in Bulgaria, being the centre of the historical region of Southern Dobruja...

 in 1999 for the musical play Pippi Long-Stocking after Astrid Lindgren

Astrid Lindgren

Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren , 14 November 1907 – 28 January 2002) was a Swedish author and screenwriter who is the world's 25th most translated author and has sold roughly 145 million copies worldwide...

. Her piano collection Children’s Corner also received an award from the Union of Bulgarian Composers.

Works

Dora Draganova composes for stage and chamber ensemble, choral and pop performance and film soundtrack.

• Comic Opera The King – Basket-Maker in one act (1972)
• Yan Bibiyan (1986)
• Pippi Long-Stockings (1989)
• Sunny Circles – TV musical play (1989)
• Serenade for flute (violin), oboe, clarinet, viola and violoncello (1996)
• String Quartet (1975)
• Book of the Specks for violin, viola, piano and reader (1994) *Souvenir from Morocco for violin, guitar and piano (1998)
• Waltz for violin and piano (1997)
• Reverse River (1980)
• Star Drops (1983)
• Autumnal Woman (1996)
• Sonatina (1971)
• Sonata (1972)
• Children’s Corner Cycle (1972)
• Pussy Cat Has Read Little Books (released on CD in 1988 and on audiocassette in 1992)
• Early-Rising Cock – songs for the youngest (released on audiocassette in 1998)
• The Sly Little Mouse (released on audiocassette in 1999)