Firfov Zhivko

(Veles, 20.11.1906 – Skopje, 1984) He is an ethno-musicologist, composer and author of film music. He finished Music School in Belgrade and in 1937 he was admitted to the recently founded Music Academy in Belgrade. Upon completion of the Music School in Belgrade he worked as a conductor of the academic singing band and head of the orchestra of the club of blind people in Zemun. In the meantime he composed together with Josip Slavenski and Jurij Arbatski. After the liberation he came back to Skopje and worked as head of the Section for art at the Department for Culture, Art and Cultural Relations with Other People at the Anti-Fascist Assembly of the People’s Liberation of Macedonia, then as head of the Music Section at Radio Skopje, artistic coordinator and one of the founders of the “Tanec” association, head of the Department for Folk Music and Choreography at the Macedonian Institute of Folklore and later its director. Firfov was a corresponding member of the International Folklore Association of IFCM in London and Honorary President of the section for Balkan dance at the International association for folk dance in London. After coming to Skopje he also composed film music and in 1949 he appeared for the first time as an author of music in the documentary “11th of October”.