Wieniawski’s “Legende” and Enescu’s “The Undead”: a Romantic-Neoclassical Dyad
Wieniawski’s “Legende” and Enescu’s “The Undead”: a Romantic-Neoclassical Dyad
Author(s): Sorana MănăilescuSubject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music, Recent History (1900 till today), History of Art
Published by: Editura Universitatii Transilvania din Brasov
Keywords: romantic self-expressionism; neoclassical Sprachstimme; Wieniavski’s Legende; Enescu’s the Undead;
Summary/Abstract: The present paper examines stylistic change in musical history by comparing the treatment of the same motif, the ill-starred lovers, in a romantic piece, Wieniawski’s Legende, Op. 17, and a post-Wagnerian composition by George Enescu: Strigoii (The Undead) Oratory, setting to music Eminescu’s homonymous legend, which in its turn, draws on Bidu’s Tower legend. Whereas Wieniawski was writing a grieving soul’s complaint in the manner of romantic self-expressionism, Enescu was attached to the national poet, to his people’s ancient past and to folk legends in the spirit of the neoclassical aesthetics of a part, the most prolific one of musical modernism.
Journal: Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov, Series VIII: Performing Arts
- Issue Year: 15/2022
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 69-78
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English