MUSICAL-PERFORMING ELEMENTS IN THE SONG CREATION OF COMPOSER NICOLAE BRETAN
MUSICAL-PERFORMING ELEMENTS IN THE SONG CREATION OF COMPOSER NICOLAE BRETAN

Summary/Abstract: The cult lied appeared at the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century inthe musical environment of Viennese Classicism, in the creation of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) and Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), then continued at a high level of understanding of theexpressive possibilities of the genre, by Franz Schubert (1797-1828), followed by Robert Schumann(1810-1856), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), or Hugo Wolf (1860-1903). The Romanian lied reaches itsheights of perfection in the twentieth century, and the specific feature of our soul that is reflected in itsstructure is the nostalgic sense of longing. This feeling represents the synthesis of the Romanian ethos.The composer Nicolae Bretan (1887-1968) occupies a special place in the history of European music. Inhis operas and his numerous songs, Bretan sought the essential nature of the song and the expressivepotential of the human voice. His plurivalent artistic personality impresses the researchers of his life andcreation and makes them want to enter more into the secrets of his work, because, besides his work as acomposer, Nicolae Bretan was a conductor, director and opera soloist. The creation of lied belonging tothe composer Nicolae Bretan is large, comprising over 200 works on various lyrics by Romanian,Austrian, Hungarian and German poets, but also on his own lyrics.

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