Atanas Badev

Atanas Badev (Cyrillic: Атанас Бадев; January 1860 – 21 September 1908) was a Bulgarian composer and music teacher.

He studied later music in Moscow and St. Petersburg and was taught by, to mention a few, the great Russian composers Balakirev and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

[10] Apart from his choral adaptations of folk and children's songs, Badev is also the composer of Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (first published in Leipzig in 1898), one of the most significant works of this genre from the end of the 19th century.

In 1904 Atanas Badev presented to the Second Congress of Music Teachers in Sofia a report on the rhythms and metrics of Bulgarian folk songs.

His son, Petar, died during the First World War at the Second Battle of Cobadin as a Bulgarian army officer from the 8th Infantry Regiment.