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Folk music is the oldest form of Romanian musical creation, characterised by great vitality; it is the defining source of the cultured musical creation, both religious and lay. Conservation of Romanian folk music has been aided by a large and enduring audience, also by numerous performers who helped propagate and further develop the folk sound.
Timeline of Romanian history. This is a timeline of Romanian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Romania and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Romania. Millennia: 1st BC · 1st · 2nd · 3rd. Centuries: 5th BC · 4th BC · 3rd BC · 2nd BC · 1st ...
Liana Alexandra (1947–2011), neoromantic composer and pianist. Elena Asachi (1789–1877), Austrian-born Romanian composer, pianist, and singer. Nicolas Astrinidis (1921–2010), composer who settled and worked in Greece. Anton Pann (1796–1854), composer, folklorist, orthodox chanter. Esmeralda Athanasiu-Gardeev (1834–1917), composer and ...
The Romanian Academy. Constantin " Dinu " Lipatti (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈdinu liˈpati] ⓘ; 1 April [O.S. 19 March] 1917 – 2 December 1950) was a Romanian classical pianist and composer whose career was cut short by his death from effects related to Hodgkin's disease at age 33. He was elected posthumously to the Romanian Academy.
The Romanian expression România Mare (Great or Greater Romania) refers to the Romanian state in the interwar period and to the territory Romania covered at the time. At that time, Romania achieved its greatest territorial extent, almost 300,000 km 2 or 120,000 sq mi [ 267 ] ), including all of the historic Romanian lands.
Bartók's music reflects two trends that dramatically changed the sound of music in the 20th century: the breakdown of the diatonic system of harmony that had served composers for the previous two hundred years; [51] and the revival of nationalism as a source for musical inspiration, a trend that began with Mikhail Glinka and Antonín Dvořák ...
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Neoclassicism in music was a twentieth-century trend, particularly current in the interwar period, in which composers sought to return to aesthetic precepts associated with the broadly defined concept of "classicism", namely order, balance, clarity, economy, and emotional restraint. As such, neoclassicism was a reaction against the unrestrained ...