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music. With the support of the Ministry of Culture (hereafter: MC), the
Composer’s Association has released a number of CDs, with some notable
titles shown in the following table.

Table 1: The Discographic Production of the Composers Association of Macedonia:
Year of Publication: 2011
CD Title: Blagoj Canev: From the Composer’s Opus
Number of Musical Works: 15
Title of Musical Composition Composer
1. Folklore Suite ‘Ovcheolska’ for Piano; B. Canev 33
2. ‘Intermezzo Suite’ for Piano;
3. ‘Three Musical Pieces’ for Piano;
4. ‘Sonata in E Flat’ for Clarinet and Piano;
5. ‘String Quartet in G’;
6. ‘Flowers’ for Voice and Piano;
7. ‘Nights’ for Women’s Choir;
8. ‘Plain’ for Male Choir;
9. ‘The Tobacco Pickers’;
10. ‘Suite Folkloric Canons’ for Wind Quintet;
11. ‘Brass trio’ in A-flat major
12. ‘Nine Miniatures’ for String Orchestra;
13. ‘Lento’ for String Orchestra;
14. ‘Symphony 79’;
15. ‘Bachophony’ for Eight Instruments.

32 Since 1998, the MC has held annual competitions through which an annual scheme
for financing programmes and projects of national interest for culture is carried out.
At the beginning, the Composers Association of Macedonia was treated by the MC
as a national institution, having its own service. However, after a change in status
(December 31, 2001), and in accordance with the government policy to reduce the
number of employees in public administration, it operates in accordance with the
law on citizens’ associations and foundations and only projects are financed by the
MC. In fact, the funds that the Composers Association receives for orders for new
works from the MC are mainly related to the Days of Macedonian Music event, and
due to the need for new works for this festival, the orders are directed more towards
solo and chamber music. The release of audio editions in the second decade of the
21st century is in accordance with the action plan of the MC for the digitisation of
musical creation, and the support and stimulation of domestic musical creation with
regard to works in various formats in the period 2013–2017 (Stefanija Leškova Zelen-
kovska, “Vlijanieto na kulturnata politika i tvoreštvoto na makedonksite kompozi-
tori vo Republika Makedonija,” Muzika: spisanie za muzička kultura, no. 20 (2014):
42–3).
33 B. Canev, Blagoj Canev: From the Composer’s Opus (Skopje: Macedonian Radio &
Television, Composers Association of Macedonia, 2011), CDr.

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