Boulanger is a very typical French/Francophone surname, equivalent of the English Baker, the Italian Panettiere, etc.
George Enescu, known in France as Georges Enesco, was a Romanian musician. Enescu is regarded as one of the greatest musicians in Romanian history; he was a composer, violinist, pianist, conductor, and teacher. He is featured on the Romanian five lei.
Marinescu is a Romanian surname deriving from the given name "Marin". Notable people with the surname include:
Josu de Solaun is a Spanish-American classical music pianist. He is also a solo piano free improviser, playing solo improvised piano recitals, as well as a published poet and a composer. He holds citizenships from both Spain and the United States. In 2019 he was given the title of Officer of Cultural Merit, a state decoration, by Klaus Iohannis, president of Romania. In 2021 he was awarded an International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) Award.
The George Enescu Festival, held in honor of the celebrated Romanian composer George Enescu, is the biggest classical music festival and classical international competition held in Romania and one of the biggest in Eastern Europe. Enescu's close associate George Georgescu organized the first festival in 1958; highlights included a performance of Bach's Concerto for Two Violins with Yehudi Menuhin and David Oistrakh as soloists and a staging of Enescu's sole opera, Œdipe, with Constantin Silvestri conducting.
Georgescu is a Romanian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Macfarren is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Dan Voiculescu was a Romanian composer, doctor of musicology (1983), professor of counterpoint and composition at the Music Academy in Cluj-Napoca and the National Music University of Bucharest, and a member of the Union of Romanian Composers and Musicologists.
Covaci is the Romanian form of the name Kovač (Ковач), meaning "forger" or "blacksmith" in Slavic languages.
Valentin Gheorghiu is a Romanian classical pianist and composer.
The George Enescu National University of Arts is a public university in Iași, Romania, founded in 1860. It was named in honor of the composer George Enescu.
The two Romanian Rhapsodies, Op. 11, for orchestra, are George Enescu's best-known compositions. They were written in 1901, and first performed together in 1903. The two rhapsodies, and particularly the first, have long held a permanent place in the repertory of every major orchestra. They employ elements of lăutărească music, vivid Romanian rhythms, and an air of spontaneity. They exhibit exotic modal coloring, with some scales having 'mobile' thirds, sixths or sevenths, creating a shifting major/minor atmosphere, one of the characteristics of Romanian music. They also incorporate some material found in the later drafts of Enescu's Poème roumaine, Op. 1.
The George Enescu International Competition is a music competition for young pianists, violinists, cellists and composers, that takes place in Bucharest, Romania. It has helped launch the careers of many musicians, and among its list of first-prize winners are legendary pianists such as Radu Lupu, the winner in the 1967 edition. Other winners include Russian pianists Elisabeth Leonskaja, in 1964, and Dmitri Alexeev, in 1970.
First Rhapsody may refer to the following musical works :
Mihail (Michael) Andricu was a Romanian composer, violinist, and pianist. He studied with Alfonso Castaldi, Robert Klenck and Dumitru Kiriac. Andricu graduated from the National University of Music Bucharest, after which he studied with Gabriel Fauré (1913-1914) and Vincent d'Indy in Paris (1919-1922). From 1926 to 1948 he was a professor of chamber music and from 1948 to 1959 he was a professor of composition. See: List of music students by teacher: A to B#Mihail Andricu.
The Enescu Prize is a prize in music composition founded by the Romanian composer George Enescu, awarded from 1913 to 1946, and afterwards by the National University of Music Bucharest. Enescu is regarded by many as Romania's most important musician. Winners include Mihail Andricu and Sergiu Natra.
The Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, Op. 27, subtitled "Villageoise" in French, is an orchestral composition by the Romanian composer George Enescu, written in 1937–38.
Luiza Borac is a Romanian classical pianist.
Poème roumain is an orchestral work, Op. 1, written by Romanian composer George Enescu in 1897. It is Enescu's first orchestral piece—composed while he was only 16 years old—and was premiered in 1898.
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