Mara Petrova was a Bulgarian pianist, writer and composer born in Sliven

Sliven

Sliven is the eighth-largest city in Bulgaria and the administrative and industrial centre of Sliven Province and municipality. It is a relatively large town with 89,848 inhabitants, as of February 2011....

, 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...

. She studied composition at the State Academy of Music with Vesselin Stoyanov, piano with Pancho Vladigerov

Pancho Vladigerov

Pancho Haralanov Vladigerov was a Bulgarian composer, pedagogue, and pianist....

, and choral conducting with Marin Goleminov

Marin Goleminov

Marin Petrov Goleminov was a Bulgarian composer, violinist, conductor and pedagogue.Goleminov was born in Kyustendil; the son of an attorney, he studied law before switching to music...

. After completing her studies, she took a position teaching at the Institute for Music and Choreographic Specialists. Petrova also published articles on music and worked as a composer.

Works

Petrova composed for theater, orchestra, chamber ensemble, instruments and choir. Selected works include:

• Podranilo (Early Bird) children's operetta
• Youth Suite (1953) for orchestra
• My Fatherland Overture for orchestra
• Dance-Poem (1966) for orchestra
• Symphony “April 1876” (1981) for orchestra
• Youth Suite for strings and timpani
• Triptych for voice, strings and small drum
• The Blue-Eyed Girl for voice and string orchestra
• Lullaby for voice and string orchestra
• Sonata for violin and piano
• Sofia Suite for oboe, clarinet, bassoon and small drum
• Dance for three bassoons
• Sketches for wind trio
• Song and Scherzo for flute and piano
• Scherzo for clarinet and piano
• Sonata and Theme with Variations
• Legend about the Apostle
• Hristo Botev choral
• Winter Tale choral
• Poem for my Native Town choral
• Bulgaria, lyrics by Hristo Chernaev