[2] Vladigerov marked the beginning of a number of genres in Bulgarian music, including the violin sonata and the piano trio.

In 1910, two years after his father's early death, Vladigerov and the rest of his family moved to Sofia, where Pancho started studying composition with Dobri Hristov, the most distinguished Bulgarian composer of his generation.

The grandfather, a mathematician by profession, and an amateur chess player,[3] musician and composer, used to play the violin with Pancho and his twin brother, Lyuben.

This symphony received in 1952 the highest honor given by the Bulgarian Government to an artist, the Dimitrov Prize,[4] and earned him the admiration of his fellow musicians: "A work like this is written only once in a hundred years", Dmitri Shostakovich exclaimed.

Pancho Vladigerov studied music theory and composition with Paul Juon[5] and piano with Karl Heinrich Barth.

The Bulgarian recording company Balkanton released an edition of his stage and symphony music in four sets of seven LPs each; however, only a very small portion of his works is currently available on CD.

It has been performed by artists such as Alexis Weissenberg, David Oistrakh, Emil Gilels, Ivan Drenikov and, most recently, Marc-André Hamelin; however, he still remains a largely unknown name except in his home country.