Gheorghe Neaga’s suites between tradition and modernity
Gheorghe Neaga’s suites between tradition and modernity

Summary/Abstract: The suites represent an important part of composer Gheorghe Neaga’s instrumental repertoire, as well as of the golden patrimony of chamber music written in the territory between the Prut and Nistru rivers. Included to different extents in the didactic repertoire of the artistic education institutions, but also in the concert repertoire, these works perfectly reflect the composer’s artistic predilections, more or less influenced by the constant evolution of the compositional techniques. This paper aims to highlight, from the perspective of the composer's works in suite form, a few examples that are representative of composer Gheorghe Neaga and of his three creative periods: the 50s-60s, when the young violinist makes his début as a composer; the 70s-80s, characterized by a linear evolution towards a quantitative and qualitative accumulation of experience in the field; the 90s-2003 (spent mostly in the U. S. A.), when each work reveals a high level of professional mastery. In this respect, in a diachronic presentation, the paper will synthesize details about the thematic profiles, ideational contents, formal structures, compositional principles and techniques, as well as about the multitude of musical elements incorporated into the works, all of them in a certain relationship with tradition or modernity.

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