Atanas Badev

Atanas Badev (Cyrillic: Атанас Бадев) (January 1860 – 21 September 1908) was a Bulgarian composer and music teacher from Macedonia.
Badev was born in Prilep, Ottoman Empire, present day Republic of Macedonia. studied music in Moscow and St. Petersburg and was taught by, to mention a few, the great Russian composers Balakirev and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Apart from his choral adaptations of folk and children's songs, Badev is also the composer of The 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. He is considered an ethnic Macedonian in the Republic of Macedonia. He died at Sofia, Bulgaria.