A perspective on the Romanian Chamber Music. Composers, Genres and Musical works in the Second half of the Nineteenth Century
A perspective on the Romanian Chamber Music. Composers, Genres and Musical works in the Second half of the Nineteenth Century

Summary/Abstract: In a diachronic overview, Romanian Chamber Music is concentrated in the musical audience opinion, by its most successful and appreciated works and through a constant performance activity, preponderantly in the first five decades of the twentieth century. However, in order to achieve a significant level of expression, the Romanian compositional path begins in the previous century with the creation of the predecessors, in their legitimate search to affirm, first of all, their own aesthetic and stylistic search, in individual connection with the ethos of the Romanians and not the least, for the first time, a coherent, modern and national written musical language. The Suite, works for mixed ensembles, Vocal works, String Quartet, Sonata, become the perfect ground for exploring and debating, in which the personal and collective experience of our first composers to form a previous school of composition (Alexander Flechtenmacher, Iacob Mureşianu, George Stephanescu, Eduard Caudella, Eduard Wachmann, Ciprian Porumbescu and Constantin Dimitrescu) will begin to show their fruits. The few remaining works give us an accurate radiography of these beginnings, prerequisites for a deserved blossom in the decades of the next century, in the creations of a collection of outstanding young composers, grouped around George Enescu's fascinating musical personality.

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