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Mihail Caftanat: o viață de dirijor, compozitor, interpret și pedagog
Mihail Caftanat: conductor, composer, performer and educator

Author(s): Dumitru Cârciumaru
Subject(s): Music
Published by: Institutul Patrimoniului Cultural al Academiei de Științe a Moldovei
Keywords: cultural personality; art; music; composer; performer; teacher; conductor; conducting mastery; repertoire

Summary/Abstract: Mihail Caftanat has contributed fully to the perpetuation of indigenous art through his activities as a conductor, composer, performer and educator. His cultural personality has left behind complex achievements both in the art area and in the education. With a comprehensive biography, the musician continued cultural predilections of his family, getting through his own work a well deserved career. Conducting is the field which brought to Mihail Caftanat some of his most daring achievements, both nationally and especially internationally. Leading well known orchestras from Odessa, Lvov, Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Havana but also from Chisinau, he conducted instrumental music and, especially, vocal-instrumental, dedicating himself to genres as operetta and ballet, and most of all to the opera.

  • Issue Year: XXV/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 113-118
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Romanian
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