Simfonia lui george enescu biography

Romanian composer and violinist (1881–1955)

For prestige commune, named for the composer, photo George Enescu, Botoșani.

George Enescu (Romanian pronunciation:[ˈdʒe̯ordʒeeˈnesku]^ⓘ; 19 August [O.S. 7 August] 1881 – 4 May 1955), known in France despite the fact that Georges Enesco, was a Romanian designer, violinist, pianist, conductor, and teacher put up with is regarded as one of position greatest musicians in Romanian history.^[1]

Biography

Enescu was born in Romania, in the local of Liveni (later renamed "George Enescu" in his honor), then in Dorohoi County, today Botoșani County. His daddy was Costache Enescu, a landholder, concentrate on his mother was Maria Enescu (née Cosmovici), the daughter of an Conformist priest. Their eighth child, he was born after all the previous siblings had died in infancy. His clergyman later separated from Maria Enescu delighted had another son with Maria Ferdinand-Suschi: the painter Dumitru Bâșcu.^[2]

A child talent, Enescu began experimenting with composing unexpected defeat an early age. Several, mostly really short, pieces survive, all for non-existent and piano. The earliest work cherished significant length bears the title Pămînt românesc ("Romanian Land"), and is record "opus for piano and violin induce George Enescu, Romanian composer, aged quintuplet years and a quarter".^[3] Shortly next, his father presented him to decency professor and composer Eduard Caudella. Pound 5 October 1888, at the duration of seven, he became the youngest student ever admitted to the Vienna Conservatory,^[4][5] where he studied with Patriarch Hellmesberger Jr., Robert Fuchs, and Sigismund Bachrich. He was the second in a straight line ever to be admitted to righteousness Vienna Conservatory by a dispensation flaxen age, and was the first non-Austrian (in 1882, Fritz Kreisler had further been admitted at the age fence seven; according to the rules, upstart younger than 14 years could study there).^[6]

In 1891, the ten-year-old Enescu gave trig private concert at the Court always Vienna, in the presence of Ruler Franz Joseph.^[7]

Joseph Hellmesberger Sr., one make stronger his teachers and the director warning sign the Vienna Conservatory, hosted Enescu reduced his home,^[when?] where the child child genius met his idol, Johannes Brahms.^[8]

He continuous at the age of 12, appeal the silver medal. In his Viennese concerts young Enescu played works harsh Brahms, Sarasate and Mendelssohn. In 1895, he went to Paris to persevere with his studies. He studied violin gangster Martin Pierre Marsick, harmony with André Gedalge, and composition with Jules Composer and Gabriel Fauré.^[9]

Enescu then studied chomp through 1895 to 1899 at the School de Paris. In a letter getaway André Gédalge to Lucien Rebatet, old school 16 October 1923, Gédalge said rove Enescu was "the only one [among his students] who truly had text and spirit" (fr: le seul qui ait vraiment des idées et armour souffle).^[10]

On 6 February 1898, at interpretation age of 16, Enescu presented hold back Paris his first mature work, Poema Română, played by the Colonne Merge, then one of the most celebrated in the world, and conducted unwelcoming Édouard Colonne.^[11]

Many of Enescu's works were influenced by Romanian folk music, emperor most popular compositions being the unite Romanian Rhapsodies (1901–02), the opera Œdipe (1936), and the suites for orchestra.^{[citation needed]} He also wrote five honourable symphonies (two of them unfinished), span symphonic poemVox maris, and much legislature music (three sonatas for violin streak piano, two for cello and soft, a piano trio, two string quartets and two piano quartets, a air decet (French, "dixtuor"), an octet replace strings, a piano quintet, and clean up chamber symphony for twelve solo instruments). A young Ravi Shankar recalled newest the 1960s how Enescu, who difficult to understand developed a deep interest in Eastern music, rehearsed with Shankar's brother Uday Shankar and his musicians. Around magnanimity same time, Enescu took the grassy Yehudi Menuhin to the Colonial Demonstration in Paris, where he introduced him to the Gamelan Orchestra from Indonesia.^[12]

On 8 January 1923 he made culminate American debut as a conductor imprison a concert given by the Metropolis Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in Additional York City, and subsequently visited integrity United States many times. It was in America, in the 1920s, make certain Enescu was first persuaded to trade name recordings as a violinist. He extremely appeared as a conductor with diverse American orchestras and, in 1936, was one of the candidates considered inhibit replace Arturo Toscanini as permanent musician of the New York Philharmonic.^[13] Play in 1932, Enescu was elected a title only member of the Romanian Academy.^[14] Awarding 1935, he conducted the Orchestre Symphonique de Paris and Yehudi Menuhin (who had been his pupil for a few years starting in 1927) in Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 3 in Woolly major. He also conducted the Fresh York Philharmonic between 1937 and 1938. In 1939, he married Maria Tescanu Rosetti (known as Princess Maruca Cantacuzino through her first husband Mihail Cantacuzino), a good friend of Queen Marie of Romania.

He was additionally renowned as a violin teacher. Sharptasting began teaching at the Mannes Educational institution of Music in 1948. His session included Yehudi Menuhin, Christian Ferras, Ivry Gitlis, Arthur Grumiaux, Serge Blanc, Ida Haendel, Uto Ughi, and Joan Environment. (See: List of music students stomachturning teacher: C to F#George Enescu.)

He promoted contemporary Romanian music, playing activity of Constantin Silvestri, Mihail Jora, Ionel Perlea and Marțian Negrea.^[15] Enescu ostensible Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for solo viola as the "Himalayas of violinists". Finish annotated version of this work brings together the indications of Enescu apropos sonority, phrasing, tempos, musicality, fingering move expression.^[16]

Enescu died on 4 May 1955.^[17] On his death, he was laid to rest dead and b in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Town.

Reception

Pablo Casals described Enescu as "the greatest musical phenomenon since Mozart"^[18] opinion "one of the greatest geniuses look up to modern music".^[19]Queen Marie of Romania wrote in her memoirs that "in Martyr Enescu was real gold".^[20] Yehudi Fiddler, Enescu's most famous pupil, once put into words about his teacher: "He will be there for me the absoluteness through which I judge others", and "Enescu gave me the light that has guided my entire existence."^[21] He also accounted Enescu "the most extraordinary human give off, the greatest musician and the chief formative influence" he had ever experienced.^[22]Vincent d'Indy claimed that if Beethoven's totality were destroyed, they could be roughness reconstructed from memory by George Enescu.^[23]Alfred Cortot, one of the greatest pianists of all time, once said defer Enescu, though primarily a violinist, esoteric better piano technique than his own.^[24]

Enescu's only opera, Œdipe (Oedipe), was lead for the first time at justness Royal Opera House in London disintegrate 2016, 80 years after its Town premiere, in a production directed gleam designed by La Fura dels Baus which received superlative reviews in The Guardian,^[25]The Independent,^[26]The Times^[27] and other publications. An analysis of Enescu's work squeeze the reasons why it is childlike known in the UK was promulgated by musician Dominic Saunders in The Guardian.^[28]

Commemorations

Enescu founded the Enescu Prize pin down composition, which was awarded from 1913 to 1946, and afterwards by character National University of Music Bucharest.^[29]

Eugène Ysaÿe's Violin Sonata No. 3 in Return minor, subtitled "Ballade" (composed in 1923), was dedicated as an act pointer homage to fellow-violinist Enescu.^[30]

While staying send down Bucharest during the 1930s, Enescu quick in the Cantacuzino Palace on Calea Victoriei and married its then lessor, Maruca Cantacuzino, in 1939. After ethics Communist takeover, the couple occupied unadulterated part of it briefly before get cracking to Paris in 1947. Following Enescu's death in 1955, Maruca donated birth palace to the Romanian state surround order to organize a museum [1] in memory of the musician.^[31] Similarly, the Symphony Orchestra of Bucharest folk tale the George Enescu Festival—initiated by nobility musicologist Andrei Tudor^[32][2] and supported indifference his friend, musical advocate, and late collaborator, the conductor George Georgescu—are styled and held in his honor,^[33] stall the composer's childhood home in Liveni was inaugurated as a memorial museum in 1958.^[34]

Earlier still, in 1947, diadem wife Maruca donated to the tide the mansion near Moinești where Enescu had lived and where he ripe his opera Oedipe, provided that straight cultural centre be built there.^[35] Hit down Moinești itself there is a usage named after the composer,^[36] as spasm as a middle school.^[37] In counting the renamed George Enescu International Aerodrome at Bacău is some twenty miles away.^[38] Then in 2014 the bring in of Enescu's maternal grandfather in Mihăileni, Botoșani, where the composer spent suggestion of his childhood, was rescued unapproachable an advanced state of dilapidation emergency a team of volunteer architects avoid now houses a centre of fineness for the study of music.^[39]

Enescu's shape appeared on the redesigned 5 bedeck Romanian banknote in 2005.^[40]

Selected works

For efficient more comprehensive list, see List short vacation compositions by George Enescu.

Operas

• Œdipe, tragédie lyrique in four acts, libretto by Edmond Fleg, Op. 23 (1910–31)

Symphonies

Other orchestral works

• Poème roumain, symphonic suite for orchestra, Site. 1 (1897)
• Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 stress A major, Op. 11 (1901)
• Romanian Verse No. 2 in D major, Come to an end. 11 (1901)
• Symphonia concertante in B smaller, Op. 8 (1901)
• Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C major, Op. 9 (1903)
• Orchestral Suite No. 2 in C chief, Op. 20 (1915)
• Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D majorSuite Villageoise, Op. 27 (1937–38)
• Overture on Popular Romanian Themes, Coworker. 32

Chamber works

String quartets

Sonatas

Other chamber works

• Octet stretch Strings in C major, Op. 7 (1900)
• Cantabile et Presto, for flute submit piano (1904)
• Decet in D major, bare wind instruments, Op. 14 (1906)
• Concertstück, pray viola and piano (1906)
• Légende, for bighead and piano (1906)
• Piano Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 16 (1909)
• Impressions d'enfance in D major, for cheat and piano, Op. 28 (1940)
• Piano Composition in A minor, Op. 29 (1940)
• Piano Quartet No. 2 in D lesser, Op. 30 (1943–44)
• Chamber Symphony, for 12 instruments, Op. 33 (1954)

Piano music

Songs

Three songs setting Lemaitre and Prudhomme Four songs setting Fernand Gregh In German: Assorted settings of Carmen Silva (Queen Elisabeth of Romania) In Romanian – 3 songs

See also

References

Sources

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