The composer Nicolae Bretan and his creation of lieder on Mihai Eminescu poetry
The composer Nicolae Bretan and his creation of lieder on Mihai Eminescu poetry

Summary/Abstract: Nicolae Bretan, composer who wrote over 230 lieder, ordinary at first sight, without too many moments of virtuosity, but which spread a state of mind dominated by a deep sense of humanism, has been lately rediscovered, by both the critics and especially by the interpreters. His musical language was inspired and sustained by the poems of Mihai Eminescu, Victor Eftimiu and Lucian Blaga, but also by those of Reiner Maria Rilke, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe or Petöffy Sandor.The interpreter's mission is to touch the audience's hearts, through text and music, a first step being precisely decoding the two languages, because the moment of creation does not end with completing the lied by the composer, but shapes up and becomes vocal with its usage. If the vocal execution is inadequate, the so called musical values remain either unexpressed or misunderstood.

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