GEORGE ENESCU
Composer, violinist and professor,
awarded many times all over the
world, he ranks as the most
influential Romanian musician in
the last century. His best known
compositions are the two Romanian
Rhapsodies, Suite no. 1 for
orchestra in C major, Op. 9 and
Symphony in E flat major, Op. 13,
no.
1.
His
most
beloved
composition, the one he had been
working on for more than 10 years,
is the opera Oedipe, Op. 23. Among
his compositions are symphonic
and chamber pieces, representative
for the composer’s mature style,
some of them in folk character.
His disciple, the famous violinist Yehudi
Menuhin, describes him as “the Absolute
by whom I judge all others… the most
extraordinary human being, the greatest
musician and the most formative influence
I have ever experienced.”
The memory of the great Romanian
musician, acknowleged as one of the most
remarkable men of culture of the 20th
century and a promoter of the Romanian
music, composers, conductors and
performers, is revived by the International
Festival “George Enescu” in Bucharest.