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George Enescu

May 04, 2023

George Enescu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈdʒe̯ordʒe eˈnesku] (listen); 19 August [O.S. 7 August] 1881 – 4 May 1955), known in France as Georges Enesco, was a Romanian composer, violinist, conductor and teacher and is regarded as one of the greatest musicians in Romanian history.[1]

George Enescu
Born(1881-08-19)19 August 1881
Liveni-Vârnav, Kingdom of Romania
Died4 May 1955(1955-05-04) (aged 73)
Paris, France
Burial placePère Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France
NationalityRomanian
Other namesJurjac, Georges Enesco
CitizenshipRomania
France
Occupation(s)musician, composer
Notable workRomanian Rhapsodies
SpouseMaria Tescanu Rosetti (m.1939 – 1955)
ChildrenElena Dinu
Parents
  • Costache Enescu (father)
  • Maria Enescu (mother)

Biography

 
Young George Enescu

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

A child prodigy, Enescu began experimenting with composing at an early age. Several, mostly very short, pieces survive, all for violin and piano. The earliest work of significant length bears the title Pămînt românesc ("Romanian Land"), and is inscribed "opus for piano and violin by George Enescu, Romanian composer, aged five years and a quarter".[3] Shortly thereafter, his father presented him to the professor and composer Eduard Caudella. On 5 October 1888, at the age of seven, he became the youngest student ever admitted to the Vienna Conservatory,[4][5] where he studied with Joseph Hellmesberger Jr., Robert Fuchs, and Sigismund Bachrich. He was the second person ever to be admitted to the Vienna Conservatory by a dispensation of age, and was the first non-Austrian (in 1882, Fritz Kreisler had also been admitted at the age of seven; according to the rules, nobody younger than 14 years could study there).[6]

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

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

External audio
  You may hear George Enescu playing Johann Sebastian Bach's Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV 1043 with Yehudi Menuhin and Pierre Monteux conducting the Symphony Orchestra of Paris in 1932 Here on archive.org

He graduated at the age of 12, earning the silver medal. In his Viennese concerts young Enescu played works by Brahms, Sarasate and Mendelssohn. In 1895, he went to Paris to continue his studies. He studied violin with Martin Pierre Marsick, harmony with André Gedalge, and composition with Jules Massenet and Gabriel Fauré.[citation needed]

Enescu then studied from 1895 to 1899 at the Conservatoire de Paris. André Gedalge said that he was "the only one [among his students] who truly had ideas and spirit".[This quote needs a citation]

On 6 February 1898, at the age of 16, Enescu presented in Paris his first mature work, Poema Română, played by the Colonne Orchestra, then one of the most prestigious in the world, and conducted by Édouard Colonne.[9]

Many of Enescu's works were influenced by Romanian folk music, his most popular compositions being the two Romanian Rhapsodies (1901–02), the opera Œdipe (1936), and the suites for orchestra.[citation needed] He also wrote five mature symphonies (two of them unfinished), a symphonic poem Vox maris, and much chamber music (three sonatas for violin and piano, two for cello and piano, a piano trio, two string quartets and two piano quartets, a wind decet (French, "dixtuor"), an octet for strings, a piano quintet, and a chamber symphony for twelve solo instruments). A young Ravi Shankar recalled in the 1960s how Enescu, who had developed a deep interest in Oriental music, rehearsed with Shankar's brother Uday Shankar and his musicians. Around the same time, Enescu took the young Yehudi Menuhin to the Colonial Exhibition in Paris, where he introduced him to the Gamelan Orchestra from Indonesia.[10]

 
The Cantacuzino Palace on Calea Victoriei (Bucharest, Romania), built in the Beaux Arts style, which is now the George Enescu Museum

On 8 January 1923 he made his American debut as a conductor in a concert given by the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in New York City, and subsequently visited the United States many times. It was in America, in the 1920s, that Enescu was first persuaded to make recordings as a violinist. He also appeared as a conductor with many American orchestras and, in 1936, was one of the candidates considered to replace Arturo Toscanini as permanent conductor of the New York Philharmonic.[11] In 1932, Enescu was elected a titular member of the Romanian Academy.[12] In 1935, he conducted the Orchestre Symphonique de Paris and Yehudi Menuhin (who had been his pupil for several years starting in 1927) in Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major. He also conducted the New 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 also renowned as a violin teacher. He began teaching at the Mannes School of Music in 1948. His students included Yehudi Menuhin, Christian Ferras, Ivry Gitlis, Arthur Grumiaux, Serge Blanc, Ida Haendel, Uto Ughi, and Joan Field. See: List of music students by teacher: C to F#George Enescu.

 
Grave of George Enescu -Père Lachaise Cemetery

He promoted contemporary Romanian music, playing works of Constantin Silvestri, Mihail Jora, Ionel Perlea and Marţian Negrea.[citation needed] Enescu considered Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin as the "Himalayas of violinists". An annotated version of this work brings together the indications of Enescu regarding sonority, phrasing, tempos, musicality, fingering and expression.[13]

Enescu died on 4 May 1955.[14] On his death, he was interred in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

Reception

 
A violin owned by George Enescu in a museum in Bucharest, Romania

Pablo Casals described Enescu as "the greatest musical phenomenon since Mozart"[15] and "one of the greatest geniuses of modern music".[16] Queen Marie of Romania wrote in her memoirs that "in George Enescu was real gold".[17] Yehudi Menuhin, Enescu's most famous pupil, once said about his teacher: "He will remain for me the absoluteness through which I judge others", and "Enescu gave me the light that has guided my entire existence."[18] He also considered Enescu "the most extraordinary human being, the greatest musician and the most formative influence" he had ever experienced.[19] Vincent d'Indy claimed that if Beethoven's works were destroyed, they could be all reconstructed from memory by George Enescu.[20] Alfred Cortot, one of the greatest pianists of all time, once said that Enescu, though primarily a violinist, had better piano technique than his own.[21]

Enescu's only opera, Œdipe (Oedipe), was staged for the first time at the Royal Opera House in London in 2016, 80 years after its Paris premiere, in a production directed and designed by La Fura dels Baus which received superlative reviews in The Guardian,[22] The Independent,[23] The Times[24] and other publications. An analysis of Enescu's work and the reasons why it is less known in the UK was published by musician Dominic Saunders in The Guardian.[25]

Commemorations

Eugène Ysaÿe's Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, subtitled "Ballade" (composed in 1923), was dedicated as an act of homage to fellow-violinist Enescu.[26]

While staying in Bucharest during the 1930s, Enescu lived in the Cantacuzino Palace on Calea Victoriei and married its then owner, Maruca Cantacuzino, in 1939. After the Communist takeover, the couple occupied a part of it briefly before moving to Paris in 1947. Following Enescu's death in 1955, Maruca donated the palace to the Romanian state in order to organize a museum in memory of the great musician.[27] Likewise, the Symphony Orchestra of Bucharest and the George Enescu Festival—founded by his friend, musical advocate, and sometime collaborator, the conductor George Georgescu—are named and held in his honor,[28] and the composer's childhood home in Liveni was inaugurated as a memorial museum in 1958.[29]

Earlier still, in 1947, his wife Maruca donated to the state the mansion near Moinești where Enescu had lived and where he completed his opera Oedip, provided that a cultural centre be built there.[30] In Moinești itself there is a street named after the composer,[31] as well as a middle school.[32] In addition the renamed George Enescu International Airport at Bacău is some twenty miles away.[33] Then in 2014 the home of Enescu's maternal grandfather in Mihăileni, Botoșani, where the composer spent part of his childhood, was rescued from an advanced state of dilapidation by a team of volunteer architects and now houses a centre of excellence for the study of music.[34]

Enescu's portrait appeared on the redesigned 5 lei Romanian banknote in 2005.[35]

Selected works

 
Filarmonica "George Enescu" – Romanian Athenaeum, Bucharest
External audio
  You may hear George Enescu's Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A major, Op. 11 and Romanian Rhapsody No. 2 in D major, Op. 11 Here on archive.org
For a more comprehensive list, see List of compositions by George Enescu.

Operas

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

Symphonies

Other orchestral works

Chamber works

String quartets

 
Queen Elisabeth of Romania with George Enescu and Dimitrie Dinicu at Peleș Castle

Sonatas

Other chamber works

Piano music

Songs

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

  • Trois Mélodies, Op. 4 (1898)
  • Sept Chansons de Clement Marot, for tenor and piano, Op. 15 (1907–08)
  • Trois Mélodies, Op. 19 (1916)
 
Cantabile and Presto
Performed by Albert Tipton (flute) and Mary Norris (piano)
Cantabile and Presto
Performed by Alex Murray (flute) and Martha Goldstein (piano)
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See also

References

  1. ^ Pascal Bentoiu, Masterworks of George Enescu, Scarecrow Press, 1910, p.v
  2. ^ Cosma, V, "George Enescu: Simfonia iubirii" 9 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine, Formula AS, 2011 issue 982
  3. ^ Voicana 1971, 52; Malcolm 2001.
  4. ^ "ICR Viena vine la Budapesta - ARADON". aradon.ro. from the original on 15 April 2014. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
  5. ^ "Romanian Achievements and Records: Part 15 | Romania In Our Hearts". romaniainourhearts.wordpress.com. 16 September 2013. from the original on 16 April 2014. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
  6. ^ Anon. "George Enescu, fața nevăzută a unui geniu" [George Enescu, the Unseen Face of a Genius], Historia Special, 2, no. 4 (September 2013): 55. ISSN 1582-7968.
  7. ^ Anon. "George Enescu, fața nevăzută a unui geniu" [George Enescu, the Unseen Face of a Genius], Historia Special, 2, no. 4 (September 2013): 10. ISSN 1582-7968.
  8. ^ Anon. "George Enescu, fața nevăzută a unui geniu" [George Enescu, the Unseen Face of a Genius], Historia Special. 2, no. 4 (September 2013): 9. ISSN 1582-7968.
  9. ^ Anon. "George Enescu, fața nevăzută a unui geniu" [George Enescu, the Unseen Face of a Genius], Historia Special, 2, no. 4 (September 2013): 11. ISSN 1582-7968.
  10. ^ Liner notes - Angel/EMI Lp 36418 (1966)
  11. ^ Malcolm 2001.
  12. ^ (in Romanian) Membrii Academiei Române din 1866 până în prezent 2 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine at the Romanian Academy site
  13. ^ "Sonatas and Partitas : Educational Edition". from the original on 10 October 2017. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
  14. ^ Randel 1996, p. 248.
  15. ^ "George ENESCU Part I: Enescu the composer Evan Dickerson - May 2005 MusicWeb-International". musicweb-international.com. from the original on 9 July 2014. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
  16. ^ "EXCLUSIV VIDEO Documentar inedit despre George Enescu: "A fost cel mai măreţ fenomen muzical, de la Mozart încoace"". adevarul.ro. from the original on 5 November 2014. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
  17. ^ Anon. "George Enescu, fața nevăzută a unui geniu" [George Enescu, the Unseen Face of a Genius], Historia Special, 2, no. 4 (September 2013): 14. ISSN 1582-7968.
  18. ^ . georgeenescu.ro. Archived from the original on 15 April 2014. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
  19. ^ . Archived from the original on 18 May 2014. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
  20. ^ "Radio Romania Muzical". en.romania-muzical.ro. from the original on 15 April 2014. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
  21. ^ "ENESCU piano music Vol 2 Borac AVIE AV2081 [GF]: Classical CD Reviews- March 2006 MusicWeb-International". musicweb-international.com. from the original on 17 July 2014. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
  22. ^ Clements, A, "Oedipe review – spellbinding staging of a 20th-century masterpiece" 4 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine, The Guardian, 24 May 2016
  23. ^ Chanteau, C, "Oedipe, Royal Opera House, review: 'A masterpiece'" 4 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine, The Independent, 24 May 2016
  24. ^ Morrison, Richard. "Opera: Oedipe at Covent Garden". www.thetimes.co.uk. from the original on 1 August 2019. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
  25. ^ Saunders, Dominic (25 October 2002). "The Mozart we missed". www.theguardian.com. from the original on 4 July 2019. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
  26. ^ Timothy Judd, "Augustin Hadelich Plays Ysaÿe: Sonata No. 3", The Listener's Club
  27. ^ Muzeul George Enescu
  28. ^ Alain Chotil-Fani, "Un voyage dans la Roumanie musicale: George Georgescu", Souvenirs des Carpates blog site (6 December 2007, accessed 14 July 2014)
  29. ^ Muzee de la sat
  30. ^ Muzee de la sat
  31. ^ Strada George Enescu
  32. ^ Scoala George Enescu
  33. ^ Closest Airport
  34. ^ Pro Patrimonio
  35. ^ "5 Lei 2005, Romania" Notescollector

Sources

  • Axente, Colette, and Ileana Ratiu. 1998. George Enescu: Biografie documentara, tineretea si afirmarea: 1901–1920. Bucharest: Editura muzicala a U.C.M.R.
  • Bentoiu, Pascal. 2010. Masterworks of George 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.
  • Brediceanu, M. et al. 1997. Celebrating George Enescu: A Symposium. Washington, D.C.:[citation needed].
  • Gheorghiu, V. 1944. Un Muzician Genial: George Enescu[citation needed].
  • Cophignon, Alain. 2006. Georges Enesco. Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard. ISBN 978-2-213-62321-4. Romanian version as George Enescu, translated by Domnica Ilea, Bucharest: Editura Institutului Cultural Român, 2009, ISBN 978-973-577-578-0.
  • Cosma, Viorel. 2000. George Enescu: A Tragic Life in Pictures. Bucharest: The Romanian Cultural Foundation Publishing House.
  • Malcolm, Noel. 1990. George Enescu: His Life and Music, with a preface by Sir Yehudi Menuhin. London: Toccata Press. ISBN 0-907689-32-9 (cloth); ISBN 0-907689-33-7 (pbk)
  • Malcolm, Noel. 2001. "Enescu, George." The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
  • Randel, Don Michael (1996). The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-67437-299-3.
  • Roth, Henry (1997). Violin Virtuosos: From Paganini to the 21st Century. Los Angeles, CA: California Classics Books. ISBN 1-879395-15-0
  • Slonimsky, Nicolas (ed.). 2001. "Georges Enesco." Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. Centennial Edition. New York: Schirmer Books.
  • Voicana, Mircea. 1971. “Anii de formare: Copilǎria (1881–1888); Studiila la Viena (1888–1894)”. In George Enescu: Monografie. 2 vols, edited by Mircea Voicana, 1: 7–129 (part 1, chapters 1–2). Bucharest: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România.
  • Voicana, Mircea (ed.) 1976. Enesciana, I.[citation needed]. (in Fr., Ger., and Eng.)

External links

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to George Enescu.
  • Works by or about George Enescu at Internet Archive
  • Legendary Violinists
  • International Enescu Society
  • Georges Enesco's Profile at The Remington Site: his Continental Bach Recordings and Remington Recordings plus a survey of Sonatas & Partitas in the 1950s
  • International Festival and Competition "George Enescu"
  • Free scores by Enescu at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
  • Free scores by George Enescu in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
  • A page on the closely linked lives of Enescu and Chailley
  • Pascal Bentoiu: George Enescu, the composer
  • Reissue of the complete Bach clavier concertos conducted by Enesco on 4 CDs
  • Review on Musicweb-International by Evan Dickerson of available recordings featuring Enescu's compositions (updated May 2005)
  • Review on Musicweb-International by Evan Dickerson of Enescu's recordings as a performer (violinist, conductor & pianist)(updated July 2005)
  • Romanian Rhapsody No.1
  • Georges Enescu Octet in C, Op.7 sound-bites and short bio

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DinuParentsCostache Enescu father Maria Enescu mother Contents 1 Biography 2 Reception 3 Commemorations 4 Selected works 4 1 Operas 4 2 Symphonies 4 3 Other orchestral works 4 4 Chamber works 4 4 1 String quartets 4 4 2 Sonatas 4 4 3 Other chamber works 4 5 Piano music 4 6 Songs 5 See also 6 References 7 Sources 8 External linksBiography Edit Young George Enescu Enescu was born in Romania in the village of Liveni later renamed George Enescu in his honor then in Dorohoi County today Botoșani County His father was Costache Enescu a landholder and his mother was Maria Enescu nee Cosmovici the daughter of an Orthodox priest Their eighth child he was born after all the previous siblings had died in infancy His father later separated from Maria Enescu and had another son with Maria Ferdinand Suschi the painter Dumitru Bașcu 2 A child prodigy Enescu began experimenting with composing at an early age Several mostly very short pieces survive all for violin and piano The earliest work of significant length bears the title Pămint romanesc Romanian Land and is inscribed opus for piano and violin by George Enescu Romanian composer aged five years and a quarter 3 Shortly thereafter his father presented him to the professor and composer Eduard Caudella On 5 October 1888 at the age of seven he became the youngest student ever admitted to the Vienna Conservatory 4 5 where he studied with Joseph Hellmesberger Jr Robert Fuchs and Sigismund Bachrich He was the second person ever to be admitted to the Vienna Conservatory by a dispensation of age and was the first non Austrian in 1882 Fritz Kreisler had also been admitted at the age of seven according to the rules nobody younger than 14 years could study there 6 In 1891 the ten year old Enescu gave a private concert at the Court of Vienna in the presence of Emperor Franz Joseph 7 Joseph Hellmesberger Sr one of his teachers and the director of the Vienna Conservatory hosted Enescu at his home when where the child prodigy met his idol Johannes Brahms 8 External audio You may hear George Enescu playing Johann Sebastian Bach s Concerto for Two Violins in D minor BWV 1043 with Yehudi Menuhin and Pierre Monteux conducting the Symphony Orchestra of Paris in 1932 Here on archive orgHe graduated at the age of 12 earning the silver medal In his Viennese concerts young Enescu played works by Brahms Sarasate and Mendelssohn In 1895 he went to Paris to continue his studies He studied violin with Martin Pierre Marsick harmony with Andre Gedalge and composition with Jules Massenet and Gabriel Faure citation needed Enescu then studied from 1895 to 1899 at the Conservatoire de Paris Andre Gedalge said that he was the only one among his students who truly had ideas and spirit This quote needs a citation On 6 February 1898 at the age of 16 Enescu presented in Paris his first mature work Poema Romană played by the Colonne Orchestra then one of the most prestigious in the world and conducted by Edouard Colonne 9 Many of Enescu s works were influenced by Romanian folk music his most popular compositions being the two Romanian Rhapsodies 1901 02 the opera Œdipe 1936 and the suites for orchestra citation needed He also wrote five mature symphonies two of them unfinished a symphonic poem Vox maris and much chamber music three sonatas for violin and piano two for cello and piano a piano trio two string quartets and two piano quartets a wind decet French dixtuor an octet for strings a piano quintet and a chamber symphony for twelve solo instruments A young Ravi Shankar recalled in the 1960s how Enescu who had developed a deep interest in Oriental music rehearsed with Shankar s brother Uday Shankar and his musicians Around the same time Enescu took the young Yehudi Menuhin to the Colonial Exhibition in Paris where he introduced him to the Gamelan Orchestra from Indonesia 10 The Cantacuzino Palace on Calea Victoriei Bucharest Romania built in the Beaux Arts style which is now the George Enescu Museum On 8 January 1923 he made his American debut as a conductor in a concert given by the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in New York City and subsequently visited the United States many times It was in America in the 1920s that Enescu was first persuaded to make recordings as a violinist He also appeared as a conductor with many American orchestras and in 1936 was one of the candidates considered to replace Arturo Toscanini as permanent conductor of the New York Philharmonic 11 In 1932 Enescu was elected a titular member of the Romanian Academy 12 In 1935 he conducted the Orchestre Symphonique de Paris and Yehudi Menuhin who had been his pupil for several years starting in 1927 in Mozart s Violin Concerto No 3 in G major He also conducted the New 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 also renowned as a violin teacher He began teaching at the Mannes School of Music in 1948 His students included Yehudi Menuhin Christian Ferras Ivry Gitlis Arthur Grumiaux Serge Blanc Ida Haendel Uto Ughi and Joan Field See List of music students by teacher C to F George Enescu Grave of George Enescu Pere Lachaise Cemetery He promoted contemporary Romanian music playing works of Constantin Silvestri Mihail Jora Ionel Perlea and Marţian Negrea citation needed Enescu considered Bach s Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin as the Himalayas of violinists An annotated version of this work brings together the indications of Enescu regarding sonority phrasing tempos musicality fingering and expression 13 Enescu died on 4 May 1955 14 On his death he was interred in Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris Reception Edit A violin owned by George Enescu in a museum in Bucharest Romania Pablo Casals described Enescu as the greatest musical phenomenon since Mozart 15 and one of the greatest geniuses of modern music 16 Queen Marie of Romania wrote in her memoirs that in George Enescu was real gold 17 Yehudi Menuhin Enescu s most famous pupil once said about his teacher He will remain for me the absoluteness through which I judge others and Enescu gave me the light that has guided my entire existence 18 He also considered Enescu the most extraordinary human being the greatest musician and the most formative influence he had ever experienced 19 Vincent d Indy claimed that if Beethoven s works were destroyed they could be all reconstructed from memory by George Enescu 20 Alfred Cortot one of the greatest pianists of all time once said that Enescu though primarily a violinist had better piano technique than his own 21 Enescu s only opera Œdipe Oedipe was staged for the first time at the Royal Opera House in London in 2016 80 years after its Paris premiere in a production directed and designed by La Fura dels Baus which received superlative reviews in The Guardian 22 The Independent 23 The Times 24 and other publications An analysis of Enescu s work and the reasons why it is less known in the UK was published by musician Dominic Saunders in The Guardian 25 Commemorations EditEugene Ysaye s Violin Sonata No 3 in D minor subtitled Ballade composed in 1923 was dedicated as an act of homage to fellow violinist Enescu 26 While staying in Bucharest during the 1930s Enescu lived in the Cantacuzino Palace on Calea Victoriei and married its then owner Maruca Cantacuzino in 1939 After the Communist takeover the couple occupied a part of it briefly before moving to Paris in 1947 Following Enescu s death in 1955 Maruca donated the palace to the Romanian state in order to organize a museum in memory of the great musician 27 Likewise the Symphony Orchestra of Bucharest and the George Enescu Festival founded by his friend musical advocate and sometime collaborator the conductor George Georgescu are named and held in his honor 28 and the composer s childhood home in Liveni was inaugurated as a memorial museum in 1958 29 Earlier still in 1947 his wife Maruca donated to the state the mansion near Moinești where Enescu had lived and where he completed his opera Oedip provided that a cultural centre be built there 30 In Moinești itself there is a street named after the composer 31 as well as a middle school 32 In addition the renamed George Enescu International Airport at Bacău is some twenty miles away 33 Then in 2014 the home of Enescu s maternal grandfather in Mihăileni Botoșani where the composer spent part of his childhood was rescued from an advanced state of dilapidation by a team of volunteer architects and now houses a centre of excellence for the study of music 34 Enescu s portrait appeared on the redesigned 5 lei Romanian banknote in 2005 35 Selected works Edit Filarmonica George Enescu Romanian Athenaeum Bucharest External audio You may hear George Enescu s Romanian Rhapsody No 1 in A major Op 11 and Romanian Rhapsody No 2 in D major Op 11 Here on archive org For a more comprehensive list see List of compositions by George Enescu Operas Edit Œdipe tragedie lyrique in four acts libretto by Edmond Fleg Op 23 1910 31 Symphonies Edit Symphony No 1 in E major Op 13 1905 Symphony No 2 in A major Op 17 1912 14 Symphony No 3 in C major with chorus Op 21 1916 18 Symphony No 4 in E minor 1935 completed by Pascal Bentoiu in 1996 Symphony No 5 in D major with women s chorus and tenor solo 1941 completed by Pascal Bentoiu in 1995 Other orchestral works Edit Poeme roumain symphonic suite for orchestra Op 1 1897 Romanian Rhapsody No 1 in A major Op 11 1901 Romanian Rhapsody No 2 in D major Op 11 1901 Symphonia concertante in B minor Op 8 1901 Orchestral Suite No 1 in C major Op 9 1903 Orchestral Suite No 2 in C major Op 20 1915 Orchestral Suite No 3 in D major Suite Villageoise Op 27 1937 38 Overture on Popular Romanian Themes Op 32Chamber works Edit String quartets Edit String Quartet No 1 in E major Op 22 No 1 1916 20 String Quartet No 2 in G major Op 22 No 2 1930 32 Queen Elisabeth of Romania with George Enescu and Dimitrie Dinicu at Peleș Castle Sonatas Edit Violin Sonata No 1 in D major Op 2 1897 Violin Sonata No 2 in F minor Op 6 1899 Violin Sonata No 3 in A minor dans le caractere populaire roumain Op 25 1926 Cello Sonata No 1 in F minor Op 26 No 1 1898 Cello Sonata No 2 in C major Op 26 No 2 1935 Other chamber works Edit Octet for Strings in C major Op 7 1900 Cantabile et Presto for flute and piano 1904 Decet in D major for wind instruments Op 14 1906 Concertstuck for viola and piano 1906 Legende for trumpet and piano 1906 Piano Quartet No 1 in D major Op 16 1909 Impressions d enfance in D major for violin and piano Op 28 1940 Piano Quintet in A minor Op 29 1940 Piano Quartet No 2 in D minor Op 30 1943 44 Chamber Symphony for 12 instruments Op 33 1954 Piano music Edit Piano Suite No 1 in G minor Dans le style ancien Op 3 1897 Piano Suite No 2 in D major Op 10 1901 1903 Piano Suite No 3 Pieces impromptues Op 18 1913 16 Piano Sonata No 1 in F minor op 24 No 1 1924 Piano Sonata No 3 in D major op 24 No 3 1933 35 Piano arrangement of Romanian Rhapsody No 1 in A major Op 11 1951 Songs Edit Three songs setting Lemaitre and Prudhomme Four songs setting Fernand Gregh In German Various settings of Carmen Silva Queen Elisabeth of Romania In Romanian 3 songs Trois Melodies Op 4 1898 Sept Chansons de Clement Marot for tenor and piano Op 15 1907 08 Trois Melodies Op 19 1916 Cantabile and Presto source source Performed by Albert Tipton flute and Mary Norris piano Cantabile and Presto source source Performed by Alex Murray flute and Martha Goldstein piano Problems playing these files See media help See also EditCategory Compositions by George Enescu George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra George Enescu International Competition List of 20th century classical composersReferences Edit Pascal Bentoiu Masterworks of George Enescu Scarecrow Press 1910 p v Cosma V George Enescu Simfonia iubirii Archived 9 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine Formula AS 2011 issue 982 Voicana 1971 52 Malcolm 2001 ICR Viena vine la Budapesta ARADON aradon ro Archived from the original on 15 April 2014 Retrieved 17 April 2014 Romanian Achievements and Records Part 15 Romania In Our Hearts romaniainourhearts wordpress com 16 September 2013 Archived from the original on 16 April 2014 Retrieved 17 April 2014 Anon George Enescu fața nevăzută a unui geniu George Enescu the Unseen Face of a Genius Historia Special 2 no 4 September 2013 55 ISSN 1582 7968 Anon George Enescu fața nevăzută a unui geniu George Enescu the Unseen Face of a Genius Historia Special 2 no 4 September 2013 10 ISSN 1582 7968 Anon George Enescu fața nevăzută a unui geniu George Enescu the Unseen Face of a Genius Historia Special 2 no 4 September 2013 9 ISSN 1582 7968 Anon George Enescu fața nevăzută a unui geniu George Enescu the Unseen Face of a Genius Historia Special 2 no 4 September 2013 11 ISSN 1582 7968 Liner notes Angel EMI Lp 36418 1966 Malcolm 2001 in Romanian Membrii Academiei Romane din 1866 pană in 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blog site 6 December 2007 accessed 14 July 2014 Muzee de la sat Muzee de la sat Strada George Enescu Scoala George Enescu Closest Airport Pro Patrimonio 5 Lei 2005 Romania NotescollectorSources EditAxente Colette and Ileana Ratiu 1998 George Enescu Biografie documentara tineretea si afirmarea 1901 1920 Bucharest Editura muzicala a U C M R Bentoiu Pascal 2010 Masterworks of George 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 Brediceanu M et al 1997 Celebrating George Enescu A Symposium Washington D C citation needed Gheorghiu V 1944 Un Muzician Genial George Enescu citation needed Cophignon Alain 2006 Georges Enesco Paris Librairie Artheme Fayard ISBN 978 2 213 62321 4 Romanian version as George Enescu translated by Domnica Ilea Bucharest Editura Institutului Cultural Roman 2009 ISBN 978 973 577 578 0 Cosma Viorel 2000 George Enescu A Tragic Life in Pictures Bucharest The Romanian Cultural Foundation Publishing House Malcolm Noel 1990 George Enescu His Life and Music with a preface by Sir Yehudi Menuhin London Toccata Press ISBN 0 907689 32 9 cloth ISBN 0 907689 33 7 pbk Malcolm Noel 2001 Enescu George The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians second edition edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell London Macmillan Publishers Randel Don Michael 1996 The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music Cambridge Belknap Press of Harvard University Press ISBN 978 0 67437 299 3 Roth Henry 1997 Violin Virtuosos From Paganini to the 21st Century Los Angeles CA California Classics Books ISBN 1 879395 15 0 Slonimsky Nicolas ed 2001 Georges Enesco Baker s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians Centennial Edition New York Schirmer Books Voicana Mircea 1971 Anii de formare Copilǎria 1881 1888 Studiila la Viena 1888 1894 In George Enescu Monografie 2 vols edited by Mircea Voicana 1 7 129 part 1 chapters 1 2 Bucharest Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste Romania Voicana Mircea ed 1976 Enesciana I citation needed in Fr Ger and Eng External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to George Enescu Works by or about George Enescu at Internet Archive Legendary Violinists International Enescu Society Georges Enesco s Profile at The Remington Site his Continental Bach Recordings and Remington Recordings plus a survey of Sonatas amp Partitas in the 1950s International Festival and Competition George Enescu Free scores by Enescu at the International Music Score Library Project IMSLP Free scores by George Enescu in the Choral Public Domain Library ChoralWiki A page on the closely linked lives of Enescu and Chailley Another site with a helpful timeline Pascal Bentoiu George Enescu the composer Reissue of the complete Bach clavier concertos conducted by Enesco on 4 CDs Review on Musicweb International by Evan Dickerson of available recordings featuring Enescu s compositions updated May 2005 Review on Musicweb International by Evan Dickerson of Enescu s recordings as a performer violinist conductor amp pianist updated July 2005 Romanian Rhapsody No 1 Georges Enescu Octet in C Op 7 sound bites and short bio Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title George Enescu amp oldid 1150236284, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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