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Ivan Marinov (composer)

Bulgarian composer (1928-2003)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ6096901 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ivan Marinov (Bulgarian: Иван Маринов) (17 October 1928 – 26 February 2003) was a Bulgarian composer and conductor. He was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. His work as a conductor has been recorded together with the Sofia Opera Orchestra, and the Radio Sofia Philharmonic.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Ivan Marinov (composer)” is bulgarian composer (1928-2003). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Ivan, Marinov and composer, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1928, 2003—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1928-10-17. For this dossier, Ivan, Marinov and composer is the immediate research focus.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6096901. VIAF identifies the subject as 79171823. The Library of Congress control number is n85373601. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1928 and 2003.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ivan Marinov (composer)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.