THE ANTHEM "AXION" IN THE CHORAL VISION OF ROMANIAN COMPOSERS
THE ANTHEM "AXION" IN THE CHORAL VISION OF ROMANIAN COMPOSERS

Summary/Abstract: The “Axion” hymn is one of the most beautiful compositions dedicated to the Mother of God, in the Byzantine church. Originally monodic, the hymn first received plurivocal choral treatment in the space of the Slavonic Orthodox Churches, and from the second half of the 19th century also in the worship of the Romanian Orthodox Church. In the Romanian space, the music of this anthem can be found in three guises: Western, Russian and Byzantine melodic inspiration. Reference Romanian composers - such as Isidor Vorbchievici, Gavriil Musicescu, Ciprian Porumbescu, Eusebiu Mandicevschi, Dumitru Georgescu Chiriac, Ioan D. Chirescu and Nicolae Lungu - composed high-quality music to the lyrics of the hymn Axion estin (It's worth it), leaving To the Romanian Orthodox Church a rich repertory endowment, to the delight and comfort of the faithful.

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