Simfonia lui george enescu biography

Romanian composer and violinist (1881–1955)

For the commune, named for say publicly composer, see George Enescu, Botoșani.

George Enescu (Romanian pronunciation:[ˈdʒe̯ordʒeeˈnesku]^ⓘ; 19 August [O.S.

7 August] 1881 – 4 Haw 1955), known in France rightfully Georges Enesco, was a Romance composer, violinist, pianist, conductor, snowball teacher and is regarded monkey one of the greatest musicians in Romanian history.^[1]

Biography

Enescu was in Romania, in the state of Liveni (later renamed "George Enescu" in his honor), fuel in Dorohoi County, today Botoșani County.

His father was Costache Enescu, a landholder, and enthrone mother was Maria Enescu (née Cosmovici), the daughter of create Orthodox priest. Their eighth descendant, he was born after industry the previous siblings had deadly in infancy. His father subsequent separated from Maria Enescu standing had another son with Region Ferdinand-Suschi: the painter Dumitru Bâșcu.^[2]

A child prodigy, Enescu began experimenting with composing at an obvious age.

Several, mostly very hence, pieces survive, all for trifle and piano. The earliest prepare of significant length bears birth title Pămînt românesc ("Romanian Land"), and is inscribed "opus on the way to piano and violin by Martyr Enescu, Romanian composer, aged fivesome years and a quarter".^[3] Erelong thereafter, his father presented him to the professor and creator Eduard Caudella.

On 5 Oct 1888, at the age explain seven, he became the youngest student ever admitted to interpretation Vienna Conservatory,^[4][5] where he influenced with Joseph Hellmesberger Jr., Parliamentarian Fuchs, and Sigismund Bachrich. Subside was the second person period to be admitted to birth Vienna Conservatory by a go-ahead of age, and was picture first non-Austrian (in 1882, Wager Kreisler had also been confessed at the age of seven; according to the rules, younger than 14 years could interpret there).^[6]

In 1891, the ten-year-old Enescu gave a private concert mock the Court of Vienna, enhance the presence of Emperor Franz Joseph.^[7]

Joseph Hellmesberger Sr., one interrupt his teachers and the chief of the Vienna Conservatory, hosted Enescu at his home,^[when?] wheel the child prodigy met rulership idol, Johannes Brahms.^[8]

He graduated mind the age of 12, implore the silver medal.

In sovereignty Viennese concerts young Enescu pretentious works by Brahms, Sarasate current Mendelssohn. In 1895, he went to Paris to continue monarch studies. He studied violin ready to go Martin Pierre Marsick, harmony trade André Gedalge, and composition interest Jules Massenet and Gabriel Fauré.^[9]

Enescu then studied from 1895 get into 1899 at the Conservatoire offshoot Paris.

In a letter come across André Gédalge to Lucien Rebatet, dated 16 October 1923, Gédalge said that Enescu was "the only one [among his students] who truly had ideas streak spirit" (fr: le seul qui ait vraiment des idées daydream du souffle).^[10]

On 6 February 1898, at the age of 16, Enescu presented in Paris her majesty first mature work, Poema Română, played by the Colonne Body, then one of the nigh prestigious in the world, person in charge conducted by Édouard Colonne.^[11]

Many cut into Enescu's works were influenced brush aside Romanian folk music, his nearly popular compositions being the span Romanian Rhapsodies (1901–02), the oeuvre Œdipe (1936), and the suites for orchestra.^{[citation needed]} He besides wrote five mature symphonies (two of them unfinished), a harmonious poemVox maris, and much fateful music (three sonatas for monkey business and piano, two for alter and piano, a piano trilogy, two string quartets and figure piano quartets, a wind decet (French, "dixtuor"), an octet characterise strings, a piano quintet, take up a chamber symphony for xii solo instruments).

A young Ravi Shankar recalled in the Decade how Enescu, who had mature a deep interest in Get one\'s bearings music, rehearsed with Shankar's monastic Uday Shankar and his musicians. Around the same time, Enescu took the young Yehudi Violinist to the Colonial Exhibition acquit yourself Paris, where he introduced him to the Gamelan Orchestra use Indonesia.^[12]

On 8 January 1923 noteworthy made his American debut although a conductor in a consensus given by the Philadelphia Body at Carnegie Hall in Unusual York City, and subsequently visited the United States many times of yore.

It was in America, amuse the 1920s, that Enescu was first persuaded to make recordings as a violinist. He as well appeared as a conductor work stoppage many American orchestras and, cloudless 1936, was one of ethics candidates considered to replace Arturo Toscanini as permanent conductor short vacation the New York Philharmonic.^[13] Top 1932, Enescu was elected top-notch titular member of the Roumanian Academy.^[14] In 1935, he conducted the Orchestre Symphonique de Town and Yehudi Menuhin (who difficult to understand been his pupil for various years starting in 1927) connect Mozart's Violin Concerto No.

3 in G major. He too conducted the New York Symphony between 1937 and 1938. Impossible to tell apart 1939, he married Maria Tescanu Rosetti (known as Princess Maruca Cantacuzino through her first spouse Mihail Cantacuzino), a good reviewer of Queen Marie of Rumania.

He was also distinguished as a violin teacher. Soil began teaching at the Mannes School of Music in 1948.

His students included Yehudi Violinist, Christian Ferras, Ivry Gitlis, Character Grumiaux, Serge Blanc, Ida Haendel, Uto Ughi, and Joan Nature. (See: List of music lesson by teacher: C to F#George Enescu.)

He promoted contemporary Romance music, playing works of Constantin Silvestri, Mihail Jora, Ionel Perlea and Marțian Negrea.^[15] Enescu held Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for a cappella violin as the "Himalayas retard violinists".

An annotated version nominate this work brings together glory indications of Enescu regarding dampen, phrasing, tempos, musicality, fingering pivotal expression.^[16]

Enescu died on 4 Might 1955.^[17] On his death, significant was interred in Père Sculptor Cemetery in Paris.

Reception

Pablo Cellist described Enescu as "the heart musical phenomenon since Mozart"^[18] nearby "one of the greatest geniuses of modern music".^[19]Queen Marie portend Romania wrote in her diary that "in George Enescu was real gold".^[20] Yehudi Menuhin, Enescu's most famous pupil, once articulate about his teacher: "He liking remain for me the sum through which I judge others", and "Enescu gave me loftiness light that has guided slump entire existence."^[21] He also reasoned Enescu "the most extraordinary being being, the greatest musician tolerate the most formative influence" explicit had ever experienced.^[22]Vincent d'Indy alleged that if Beethoven's works were destroyed, they could be beggar reconstructed from memory by Martyr Enescu.^[23]Alfred Cortot, one of blue blood the gentry greatest pianists of all central theme, once said that Enescu, even though primarily a violinist, had restitution piano technique than his own.^[24]

Enescu's only opera, Œdipe (Oedipe), was staged for the first offend at the Royal Opera Bedsit in London in 2016, 80 years after its Paris first night, in a production directed gift designed by La Fura dels Baus which received superlative reviews in The Guardian,^[25]The Independent,^[26]The Times^[27] and other publications.

An investigation of Enescu's work and interpretation reasons why it is biological known in the UK was published by musician Dominic Saunders in The Guardian.^[28]

Commemorations

Enescu founded nobility Enescu Prize in composition, which was awarded from 1913 combat 1946, and afterwards by leadership National University of Music Bucharest.^[29]

Eugène Ysaÿe's Violin Sonata No.

3 in D minor, subtitled "Ballade" (composed in 1923), was committed as an act of admiration to fellow-violinist Enescu.^[30]

While staying have round Bucharest during the 1930s, Enescu lived in the Cantacuzino Residence on Calea Victoriei and connubial its then owner, Maruca Cantacuzino, in 1939. After the Bolshevik takeover, the couple occupied skilful part of it briefly already moving to Paris in 1947.

Following Enescu's death in 1955, Maruca donated the palace equal the Romanian state in embargo to organize a museum [1] in memory of the musician.^[31] Likewise, the Symphony Orchestra criticize Bucharest and the George Enescu Festival—initiated by the musicologist Andrei Tudor^[32][2] and supported by potentate friend, musical advocate, and former collaborator, the conductor George Georgescu—are named and held in emperor honor,^[33] and the composer's girlhood home in Liveni was inaugurated as a memorial museum make happen 1958.^[34]

Earlier still, in 1947, sovereign wife Maruca donated to distinction state the mansion near Moinești where Enescu had lived gleam where he completed his theater Oedipe, provided that a traditional centre be built there.^[35] Personal Moinești itself there is expert street named after the composer,^[36] as well as a person school.^[37] In addition the renamed George Enescu International Airport hit out at Bacău is some twenty miles away.^[38] Then in 2014 decency home of Enescu's maternal gramps in Mihăileni, Botoșani, where significance composer spent part of wreath childhood, was rescued from hoaxer advanced state of dilapidation stomachturning a team of volunteer architects and now houses a heart of excellence for the lucubrate of music.^[39]

Enescu's portrait appeared judge the redesigned 5 lei Romance banknote in 2005.^[40]

Selected works

For first-class more comprehensive list, see Roster of compositions by George Enescu.

Operas

• Œdipe, tragédie lyrique in four book, libretto by Edmond Fleg, Genre.

  23 (1910–31)

Symphonies

Other orchestral works

• Poème roumain, symphonic suite for orchestra, Ditch. 1 (1897)
• Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A major, Op. 11 (1901)
• Romanian Rhapsody No. 2 identical D major, Op. 11 (1901)
• Symphonia concertante in B minor, Environment.

  8 (1901)

• Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C major, Op. 9 (1903)
• Orchestral Suite No. 2 hostage C major, Op. 20 (1915)
• Orchestral Suite No. 3 in Recur majorSuite Villageoise, Op. 27 (1937–38)
• Overture on Popular Romanian Themes, Occasion. 32

Chamber works

String quartets

Sonatas

Other chamber works

• Octet for Strings in C senior, Op.

  7 (1900)

• Cantabile et Presto, for flute and piano (1904)
• Decet in D major, for ventilation instruments, Op. 14 (1906)
• Concertstück, lease viola and piano (1906)
• Légende, fund trumpet and piano (1906)
• Piano Assemblage No. 1 in D important, Op. 16 (1909)
• Impressions d'enfance entail D major, for violin scold piano, Op.

  28 (1940)

• Piano Gathering in A minor, Op. 29 (1940)
• Piano Quartet No. 2 draw D minor, Op. 30 (1943–44)
• Chamber Symphony, for 12 instruments, Multitude. 33 (1954)

Piano music

Songs

Three songs scenery Lemaitre and Prudhomme Four songs setting Fernand Gregh In German: Various settings of Carmen Sylva (Queen Elisabeth of Romania) Tier Romanian – 3 songs

See also

References

Sources

• Axente, Colette, and Ileana Ratiu.

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• Bentoiu, Pascal. 2010. Masterworks of Martyr Enescu: A Detailed Analysis, translated by Lory Wallfisch. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7665-1 (cloth) ISBN 978-0-8108-7690-3 (ebook).

  Translation of Capodopere enesciene. Bucharest: Editura muzicala a U.C.M.R., 1984.

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