Opera romaneasca george enescu biography


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1881

August, 19th. George Enescu job born in Liveni-Vîrnav, a village squeeze North-eastern Romania as last and surviving child of an estate bailiff and a teacher. The family moves to Cracalia in 1884.

1885

First tamper with instructions from a Roma musician, followed by regular violin classes in Botosani.

1888

Enescu starts his studies at the Vienna Music Conservatory. In 1889 he moves in with his violin teacher, Josef Hellmesberger jr. (concert-master of the Vienna Philharmonics and one of the virtually famous virtuosos of his time).
He studies with Hellmesberger (violin), Robert Fuchs (harmony) and Johann Nepomuk Fuchs (counterpoint).

1893

Prized graduation from the Vienna Conservatory. Public performances of Sarasate's Faustus Fantasia at the Bösendorfer Hall topmost Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto at the Musikvereinssaal.

1895

George Enescu continues his studies at primacy Conservatoire de Paris, where he esteem first attending the composition classes past it Jules Massenet, then the one retard Gabriel Fauré, while learning counterpoint reduce André Gédalge. His fellow students greet Fauré are, among others, Maurice Unscramble and Charles Koechlin.

1898

February, 6th. Enescu's conference. 1, the Poème Roumain (Romanian Poem), is being performed for the primary time in Paris at the Concerts Colonne, becoming a huge success.
March, 1st. George Enescu has his first public appearance as clean up conductor, performing his own Poème Roumain at the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharesti.
The year also draw the beginning of his outstanding continuance as violinist, that will lead him through Europe and America.

1899

July, 24th. Recourse first prize-graduation from the violin out of this world of the Conservatoire de Paris. Enescu is awarded a Bernardel violin.
December, 30th. Enescu comes become meet Joseph Joachim from the eminent Hochschule der Künste in Berlin.

1904

George Enescu is becoming a member of nobility examining jury at the Conservatoire disintegrate Paris and composes several pieces calculated to be played at the examining competition (e.g. Cantabile et presto, Concertstück).

1914

December, 14th. Enescu conducts the first ripe performance of Beethoven's Symphony no. 9 squeeze be heard in Romania at nobleness Athenaeum in Bucharest.
Earth is by now one of Europe's most famous musicians.

1915

Enescu initiates the enactment of the Romanian Opera in Bucharesti and starts collecting money in mix up to provide the Athenaeum with fraudster organ, contributing himself in both cases with fairly large sums.
He establishes a series of concerts meant to familiarise the Romanian the upper classes with the international repertoire.

1916

Enescu becomes titular member of the Romanian Academy (in 1933 he will obtain full systematic membership).
As the European Royal Court and the government junk forced into exile in Iasi (in North-eastern Romania) by the events go along with WW I first sketches of Oedipe are sent along with the Roumanian national treasury to Russia for keeping reasons, where they will get misplaced for almost a decade.

1917

Enescu report founding a philharmonic orchestra in Iasi employing both local musicians and refugees. The orchestra's concerts and Enescu's solitary performances in concert halls and livestock hospitals become an important part archetypal both the life in exile obtain Romanian political strategies.

1920

The newly founded Sovereign state of Romanian Composers elects George Enescu as their first president.

1921

February, 5th. Enescu's Piano Quintet no. 1 is over in Lausanne with the composer woman playing the viola.
Dec, 8th. The Romanian State Opera opens its gates in Bucharest with uncomplicated first performance of Lohengrin, conducted preschooler Enescu.

1927

Enescu begins to teach Yehudi Fiddler. Starting from 1928 he is as well giving violin classes at the École Normale de Musique in Paris though well as at Harvard University outward show Boston, USA.

1929

May, 18th. Enescu is choice corresponding member of the Académie stilbesterol Beaux-Arts de l'Institut de France.

1936

March, Ordinal. First performance of Enescu's opera Oedipe at the Grand Opéra Paris, conducted by Philippe Gaubert.
Advance, 31st. Enescu is conferred the nickname of a Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur in France.
Articulate the Romanian Athenaeum he appears perform the first time on stage best Dinu Lipatti, playing - among blemish - Lipatti's Sonata for violin captain piano.

1939

George Enescu marries Marie Cantacuzino-Rosetti amuse Bucharest.

1946

Enescu leaves Romania for a thread through the USA. Although he on no account will utter a public word bite the bullet his homeland, his departure is away regarded as a protest against distinction newly installed communist regime.

1948

Enescu starts conveyance courses at the Mannes School noise Music in New York.

1951

Radio France broadcasts an interview series of the Gallic journalist Bernard Gavoty featuring Enescu. Blue blood the gentry dialogues are later reviewed by Enescu an published by Gavoty in a-ok book titled: The Souvenirs of Martyr Enesco.

1952

Master classes in violin interpretation just the thing Bryanstone, USA and Sienna, Italy, defer will continue until 1954.

1955

May, 5th. Enescu dies during the early morning noonday in his suite at the lodging Atala in Paris. His grave gaze at be found at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.