LA BICENTENARUL NAȘTERII LUI ȘTEFANACHE POPESCU (1824-1911)
ON THE BICENTENARY OF THE BIRTH OF ȘTEFANACHE POPESCU (1824-1911)

Summary/Abstract: Psalt, psaltery teacher and composer, Ștefanache Popescu remained in the history of Romanian Orthodox church music as a prominent personality, who contributed to the enrichment of the choir repertoire through original creations and interpretations from the Greek language. Student of Anton Pann and the Greek psalt Hristodor Gheorghiade, later perfected in Constantinopol with the best psalts of the time, Ștefanache Popescu stood out for his rich and diverse activity, being appreciated as one of the most profound connoisseurs of psaltical music and for his compositions, who contributed to the completion of the process of "Romanization" of church singing. Among the many edited collections, the version made for "Prohodul Domnului" and "Anastasimatarul practic-ritmat" stand out. The work aims to emphasize the role played by Șt. Popescu in shaping an autochthonous style of pew singing, preserved and perfected by his students, especially by Ion Popescu-Pasărea, the one who re-edited and completed his church song collections posthumously.

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