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- 2019 · Duo Brüggen-Plank
Composer · 1881 - 1955
George Enescu
- University of Illinois Orchestra, John M. Kuypers, George Enescu
- All-State Philharmonic Orchestra, Darrell Umhoefer, Soo Han
- Luiza Borac, Nicolae Moldoveanu, Romanian National Radio Orchestra Bucharest
- Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Guillaume Lekeu, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Yehudi Menuhin, Felix Mendelssohn, Hephzibah Menuhin, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, César Franck, Franz Schubert, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ildebrando Pizzetti, Sir Edward Elgar, Béla Bartók, Karol Szymanowski, George Enescu, Robert Schumann
- Pavel Gintov, Ekaterina Litvintseva, Nare Karoyan, Mark Viner, Mattia Ometto, Saskia Giorgini, Vincenzo Maltempo, Tobias Borsboom, Dimitri Tchesnokov
Biography
George Enescu (1881-1955) was a gifted musician who was as proficient a composer and pianist as he was a great violinist. The stylistically varied nature of his compositions reflects his cosmopolitan life, spent primarily in Romania and France. His early music, including the popular Romanian Rhapsodies, use folk music, while his opera Oedipe features motivic development that stems from the influence of Austro-Germanic composers. Enescu's violin and cello sonatas and the string quartets combine elements of both, emphasizing the interplay of melodic lines, while his symphonies and piano music often have neo-classical and Impressionistic facets to them.