Iliya Iliev

Iliya Iliev (1912–1990) graduated from the Sofia University Law Faculty. He took private lessons in Theory of Music and Composition under Professor Assen Karastoyanov, Professor Vesselin Stoyanov and Professor Parashkev Hadjiev. He worked as a lawyer, conductor of amateur and professional choirs, head of classes for conductors, editor and compiler of several music publications. He collected and noted over 600 traditional songs. He wrote children’s operettas; works for symphony, chamber and string orchestra; chamber music; over 150 choral.