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Salon Music in the Nineteenth-Century Iași
Salon Music in the Nineteenth-Century Iași

Author(s): Dalia Rusu-Persic
Subject(s): Music
Published by: Editura Universității Naționale de Muzică din București
Keywords: Eduard Caudella; music analysis; manuscript sources;

Summary/Abstract: The political and cultural orientation of the Romanian Principalities towards the values of the Central and Western Europe, starting with the fourth decade of the 19th century, established a period of intense recovery of the forms of artistic manifestation and in the musical field. In agreement with the social-cultural life of the major cultural cities of Europe, especially with Paris and Vienna, in Iași, due to the existence of a large class of aristocratic boyars, the culture of the salon was developed, stimulating environment for the recovery and adaptation of Western-type chamber music for the Romanian receiver. The musicological writings and the manuscripts researched attest to the large number of living pieces created by the previous composers, who activated in Iași in the 19th century: Alexandru Flechtenmacher, Gheorghe Burada, Pietro Mezzetti, Enrico Mezzetti, Eduard Caudella et al. The genres of this compositional category can be associated with those practiced in European salon music, constituting dances (polkas, waltzes, minuets, gavotte, etc.), medleys (dance and song suites), vocal miniatures (songs, romances, patriotic hymns). The study aims to highlight some old manuscripts and prints, discovered through an applied historiographic research, based on cataloging and analysis. I will focus on the pianistic creation of Gheorghe Burada from 1848 to 1865 and on the vocal miniature of Eduard Caudella from 1872 to 1915, unknown pieces, found in the manuscript in different library collections.

  • Issue Year: 10/2019
  • Issue No: 40
  • Page Range: 309-327
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: English