CONSTANTIN BRĂILOIU AND HIS COLLECTION OF ROMANIAN FOLKLORE AT GENEVA ETHNOGRAPHY MUSEUM
CONSTANTIN BRĂILOIU AND HIS COLLECTION OF ROMANIAN FOLKLORE AT GENEVA ETHNOGRAPHY MUSEUM

Summary/Abstract: Constantin Brăiloiu (1893 – 1958) is a well-known Romanian scientist, collector and researcher of Romanian folklore, founder of the folklore archive in Bucharest. He introduced the teaching of musical folklore at the Bucharest Conservatory and began the systematic collection of pieces of folk music in different Romanian regions. He spent the last years of his life in Geneva. Here, in the Geneva Ethnography Museum, he collected an extensive collection of folk music from different nations. This collection consists of his own materials and that of his colleagues. At present, the Constantin Brăiloiu sound recording collectionsare in the public domain and published on the museum’s website. In this way, unique folkloric creations, recorded in the distant 1930 – 1940s, are available for listening today from anywhere in the world. Of course, the scientific works of contemporary researchers can be based on these materials

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