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Extractions: George Enescu (also Georges Enesco, in French) Enescu's timeline (French) Enescu's life in pictures List of Works Online articles about Enescu ... Bibliography The Romanian composer George Enescu is one of the neglected giants of modern music. Prodigiously gifted, he became best known in America as a conductor (where he was considered as a successor to Toscanini in New York) and in Europe as one of the greatest violinists of the century. But he was first and foremost a composer ; and, tragically, his mature works - works of extraordinary emotional depth and intricate beauty - remain virtually unknown outside Romania. George Enescu was said by Pablo Casals to be "the most amazing musician since Mozart" , a statement which in many respects was true. He achieved international renown as a composer violinist pianist conductor and teacher and he displayed genius in each of these disciplines. He possessed a phenomenal memory and knew the entire repertoire of classical and romantic music by heart, in addition to many works of the twentieth century, with which one of his generations might well have been though unsympathetic. Apart from these superlative gifts, Enescu was a man of humility; he was a profound teacher (counting Yehudi Menuhin and Dinu Lipatti amongst his pupils) who impressed every musician who met him. He was born in 19 August 1881 in Liveni, Romania. So gifted was he that, aged only seven, he entered the Vienna Conservatoire as an accomplished violinist, determined to be a composer. Enescu never forgot his home, set amidst Carpathian peaks, and graduated with distinction from Conservatoire before his 11th birthday. He had played on the first desk of an orchestra under Brahms in the latter's C minor Symphony and accompanying Brahms in his First Piano Concerto. Brahms was a lifelong hero, as was Wagner (indicating Enescu's broad sympathies) who became, as he sad
Polishing The Jewel: The Genius Of George Enescu to reductive nationalist symbolism Ernst von Dohnányi and george enescu. The careers of both of these musical as a pianist, enescu as a violinist. Each was trained in Vienna http://www.americansymphony.org/dialogues_extensions/99_2000season/2000_02_04/le
Extractions: Sonata Nr. 1 for Solo Violin in G minor BWV 1001 And works by Handel, Corelli, Chausson, Pugnani. Format: Compact Disc Record Label: Edition Modern Catalog Number: ED MN 3001 Year Released/Recorded: Total Playing Time: N/A Comments: George Murnu said: Acknowledgements: Thank you to the following for submitting this recording and for your comments: Date First Submitted: Purchasing: Suggested Purchasing Sources About This Site Biography, Portraits and Literature Works by BWV Number Works by Category Works by Key Works by Title Works by Year The Cantatas Project Recordings by Title Recordings by Conductor or Main Performer Recordings by Instrument Recordings by BWV Number Recordings by Record Label Recordings Submitted Recently Web Sites with Bach Information Web Sites with Bach MIDI Files Featured Recordings Suggested Purchasing Sources
Extractions: Sonata Nr. 1 for Solo Violin in G minor BWV 1001 And works by Handel, Corelli, Chausson, Pugnani. Format: Compact Disc Record Label: Edition Modern Catalog Number: ED MN 3001 Year Released/Recorded: Total Playing Time: N/A Comments: George Murnu said: Acknowledgements: Thank you to the following for submitting this recording and for your comments: Date First Submitted: Purchasing: Suggested Purchasing Sources About This Site Biography, Portraits and Literature Works by BWV Number Works by Category Works by Key Works by Title Works by Year The Cantatas Project Recordings by Title Recordings by Conductor or Main Performer Recordings by Instrument Recordings by BWV Number Recordings by Record Label Recordings Submitted Recently Web Sites with Bach Information Web Sites with Bach MIDI Files Featured Recordings Suggested Purchasing Sources
Joys Of Music Project (Paul Banks, 1996). george enescu (18811955) is a Romanian violinist,pianist, conductor, and composer. He scored remarkable successes http://www.geocities.com/petrudumitru/mysound/fcomposer08.html
Extractions: George Enescu George Enescu (1881 - 1955) is the greatest Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor and teacher, one of the most important musicians from the 20th century. Enescu raised the professional Romanian music at the level of the universal music values. Born in Liveni, near Dorohoi, Botosani county (northern Moldavia), he has known since his childhood the Romania folklore from the folk music bands. He began his studies at the Conservatoire of Iasi with the professor Eduard Caudella. Due to his extraordinary talent he was guided to follow his studies at the Conservatoire from Vienna and next in Paris. He was the first foreign student in Paris who obtained the golden medal. Violinist of international fame, he was considerate one of the greatest interpreters of his time. He was the teacher of Yehudi Menuhin, who appreciated him very much, and included Enescu's works in his repertoire. His creation has some unvaluable works: "Romanian Rhapsodies" no. 1 and 2, "Oedip" opera, "Impressions from Childhood" suite, symphonies, sonatas for violin and piano, quartets, lids and others. Maria Dumitru
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Extractions: GEORGE ENESCU Enescu, George (1881-1955), Romanian violinist, pianist, conductor, and composer, born in Liveni (present-day Enescu). He began study of the violin at the age of 4 and entered the Vienna Conservatory at 7 and the Paris Conservatoire at 13. Among his masters were the noted French composers Jules Massenet and Gabriel Fauré. Enesco toured Europe as a violin virtuoso after 1899. In 1923 he made his debut as a conductor in a New York concert of the Philadelphia Orchestra; he conducted the New York Philharmonic in 1937-38. Enesco was also a noted teacher; the violinist Yehudi Menuhin was his pupil. After World War II, Enesco made Paris his home. Enesco was considered the outstanding Romanian composer of his time. A versatile musician, he wrote in a number of styles: romantic, neoclassical, atonal. His fame as a composer, however, rests on such works as the two Romanian Rhapsodies, in which he makes use of national folk melodies. His other works include the symphonic suite
Extractions: This is a vastly interesting book, I cannot remember making so many notes or annotations to a book on a composer's life and music for many years. If I quoted from half of the pages I turned the corners down, this review would stretch way beyond the editor's forbearance. The book details Enescu's life from his early years in Romania where he was entranced by the rich diversity of the Romanian folk music tradition, through to his sad death in poverty in Paris during the night of 3/4 th May 1955, after his wealth had been lost in fleeing Communist Romania after World War II. We read of Enescu's fascination with polyphony and about his early compositions and of the Queen of Romania's patronage of his music. (The Queen was a colourful character and very artistic writing under the name of 'Carmen Sylva.') All the major musical figures of the age continue to parade through the pages of the book as it advances through the life of the composer all the while the author describing all the works in accessible terms loaded with just the right amount of musical examples. The chamber music, instrumental pieces and the orchestral works including the symphonies are all covered. There is a whole chapter devoted to Enescu's opera
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Extractions: Crotchet Long neglected outside his native land (except for his two Romanian Rhapsodies ), the music of George Enescu (1881-1955), Romania's greatest composer, has recently received growing attention. Despite his busy career as violinist and conductor, he found time to compose five symphonies and a fair amount of chamber music, of which these two quartets - completed in 1920 and 1951 - may be taken as fully representative. They are played here by the Quatuor Ad Libitum, a body founded in 1988 at the George Enescu Academy of Arts, which has achieved considerable distinction in its relatively short life. The first quartet is very long and the leisurely unfolding of the musical argument in the first two movements does not consistently hold one's attention. The third movement, however, contains some wonderfully inventive writing and the finale is even more striking - its sumptuous chorale-like coda the vehicle for a remarkable display of double-stopping. Inspiration is again somewhat variable in the much shorter second quartet. The slow movement contains a haunting sequence for muted upper strings accompanied by a quasi-percussive cello pizzicato, and the quirky scherzo which follows is equally attractive.
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Extractions: GEORGE ENESCU Enescu, George (1881-1955), Romanian violinist, pianist, conductor, and composer, born in Liveni (present-day Enescu). He began study of the violin at the age of 4 and entered the Vienna Conservatory at 7 and the Paris Conservatoire at 13. Among his masters were the noted French composers Jules Massenet and Gabriel Fauré. Enesco toured Europe as a violin virtuoso after 1899. In 1923 he made his debut as a conductor in a New York concert of the Philadelphia Orchestra; he conducted the New York Philharmonic in 1937-38. Enesco was also a noted teacher; the violinist Yehudi Menuhin was his pupil. After World War II, Enesco made Paris his home. Enesco was considered the outstanding Romanian composer of his time. A versatile musician, he wrote in a number of styles: romantic, neoclassical, atonal. His fame as a composer, however, rests on such works as the two Romanian Rhapsodies, in which he makes use of national folk melodies. His other works include the symphonic suite
Suite No. 3, "Villageoise" (1938) As a composer, george enescu (18811955) may well have suffered even more than he Hisvery celebrity as a virtuoso violinist, as a conductor, and most of all http://www.americansymphony.org/dialogues_extensions/99_2000season/2000_02_04/vi
Extractions: Oedipe as the most unjustly neglected of 20 th -century operas. Romanian Poem for orchestra with wordless chorus. By that time he had already sketched two Romanian Suites. The two Romanian Rhapsodies of Opus 11, which followed just four years later, have remained by far his most celebrated compositions, and even those Enescu works that do not have the word "Romanian" in their titles are, almost without exception, closely linked with the tradition of Romanian folk music. The last of his three completed orchestral suites, the Suite villageoise in D Major commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and composed in 1937-38, is especially personally involved with Enescu’s native inheritance, for it is in essence a reminiscent and imaginative series of "scenes from childhood." The five movements suggest the passage from morning, through afternoon, sunset, and night, to morning again. The title of the opening Allegro moderato may be translated "Springtime in the Country"; it establishes as once the bright, fresh sonority that results from Enescu’s highly accomplished scoring. If Enescu’s represents a gentler evocation of awakening nature than Stravinsky’s famous image of ice breaking up "like the whole earth cracking" in
Extractions: melissa@uiuc.edu Sherban Lupu, professor of violin, received a lifetime achievement award from the Romanian Cultural Foundation for his efforts to promote Romanian culture and music internationally. CHAMPAIGN, Ill. University of Illinois music professor Sherban Lupu has received a lifetime achievement award from the Romanian Cultural Foundation for his efforts to promote Romanian culture and music internationally. Lupu traveled to his native Bucharest last month to accept the Gala Award, presented at the foundation's annual awards festivities. The foundation awards the honor to "personalities of the international cultural and scientific life who have been involved in promoting Romanian culture abroad."
Composer George Enescu To Be Celebrated With Symposium Oct. 20-22 Fifty years after Romanian composer george enescu's last residency enescu has beena towering figure of century as a composer, violinist, pianist, conductor http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/00/1010enescu.html
Extractions: melissa@uiuc.edu CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Fifty years after Romanian composer George Enescu's last residency at the University of Illinois, the campus is celebrating the anniversary with a three-day symposium Oct. 20-22. "Enescu has been a towering figure of the 20th century as a composer, violinist, pianist, conductor and pedagogue," said UI violin professor and event coordinator Sherban Lupu. "Together with Bartok, Szymanowsky, Janacek and Stravinsky, he engineered the rebirth of the East European national schools, thus creating the bridge linking the romantic era to the modern and contemporary language of music." From 1948 through 1950, Enescu was a regular visitor to the UI campus. During his extended visits, he gave master classes in violin, piano and chamber music, and performed and conducted.
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Extractions: Died May 4, 1955 Paris, France George Enescu was one of the most prodigiously gifted musicians of the 20 th century: a great violinist and composer, a distinguished conductor, an accomplished pianist, able cellist and a famous violin teacher who numbered Christian Ferras, Arthur Grumiaux and Yehudi Menuhin among his pupils. His musical memory was phenomenal, a fact that contributed to the loss of some of his own works which he composed but never wrote down. As a composer, Enescu's published output was relatively modest, though it contained some substantial works, including his masterpiece, the opera Odeipe . The fact that his three published symphonies were composed between 1905 and 1918 might suggest - wrongly - that his interest in the genre was modest and lasted for less then fifteen years. Actually, as a student Enescu was a prolific composer (nearly three hundred works date from the period up to 1900) and he completed three other symphonies (as well as a Chamber Symphony finished in 1954) and began work on another three in the years 1894-1941. Source Romanians Website (Paul Banks, 1996)
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Extractions: GEORGE ENESCU by Claudiu Badea George Enescu was born in the town of Liveni on August 19, 1881. He is regarded as Romania's most versatile musician and certainly it's greatest composer. Enescu was surrounded by music from an early age. His father sang, conducted a choir and played the violin. His mother played the guitar and the piano. He began to play the violin at the age of four. He got his first lesson from a gypsy 'lautar' who could not read music and so taught his pupils by making them imitate him by ear (Malcolm p.30) Enescu showed progress very quickly and his parents decided to start him on piano. At the same time he was taught how to read music, and the floodgates were opened. Enescu began to compose in styles which he knew or just imagined, but it was very fascinating to others because of his young age and his very limited range of exposure to classical music. At the age of seven, Enescu was brought to the Conservatoire in Iasi where he auditioned with the director, Eduard Caudella. When he was done performing, Caudella recommended that Enescu be sent to Vienna where he could receive a much better musical education. His debut performance was as a violinist in 1889, and by the time he left the Conservatory in Vienna to study in Paris in 1895, he was regarded as a mature performer (Malcolm p.60). Enescu's early success as a composer, which raised some eyebrows at the Conservatoire, came with the performance of his Poeme Roumain in January 1898. This work became Opus 1 in his mature series of opus numbers. This piece was to remain one of the (if not the most) favorite composition to the composer as it was his first major performed work. It is a symphonic suite which incorporates Romanian styles of folkloric influence (Voicana, p82). Three years later, Enescu completed the two Romanian Rhapsodies which were again written along the styles of some Romanian dances. As it would turn out, these two rhapsodies would become the most successful pieces that he wrote. He would look back later in his life and regret that those two pieces became those by which the world would remember him since they were not his favorites.
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Extractions: George Enescu was one of the most prodigiously gifted musicians of the twentieth century: a great violinist and composer, a distinguished conductor, an accomplished pianist, able cellist and a famous violin teacher who numbered Christian Ferras, Arthur Grumiaux and Yehudi Menuhin among his pupils. His musical memory was phenomenal, a fact that contributed to the loss of some of his own works which he composed but never wrote down. As a composer, Enescu's published output was relatively modest, though it contained some substantial works, including his masterpiece, the opera Odeipe . The fact that his three published symphonies were composed between 1905 and 1918 might suggest - wrongly - that his interest in the genre was modest and lasted for less then fifteen years. Actually, as a student Enescu was a prolific composer (nearly three hundred works date from the period up to 1900) and he completed three other symphonies (as well as a Chamber Symphony finished in 1954) and began work on another three in the years 1894-1941. 1996 Paul Banks
