Felicia Donceanu

Felicia Donceanu ( born January 28, 1931 in Bacău ) is a Romanian composer.

Donceanu studied from 1949 to 1956 at the Conservatory Ciprian Porumbescu in Bucharest at Mihail Jora (composition), George Breazul and Ioan D. Chirescu (theory and solfeggio ), Paul Constantinescu (harmony ), Nicolae Buicliu ( counterpoint) and Mircea Basarab ( orchestration ).

Until 1958, she worked in the music department of the publishing house Literatura şi Arta, then until 1966 at the Editura Muzicală. She wrote articles and reviews for magazines like Muzica, Contemporanul, Munca and Azi, wrote texts for vocal works by other composers and songwriters and wrote scripts for radio broadcasts and musical- choreographic performances. In addition, it also emerged as an illustrator of children's books.

Donceanu composed symphonic and chamber music, incidental music and vocal works. At the International Composition Competition of Mannheim in 1961 she was awarded an honorable mention. Multiple they received prizes of the Romanian Composers Union, in 1981 the Order of Merit for Culture and first class in 1984 the George Enescu Prize of the Romanian Academy.

Works

  • Meşterul Manole, symphonic poem, 1956, 1968, 1977
  • Music for the play Tartuffe by Molière, 1965
  • Music for the play " Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare, 1965
  • Inscripţie pe un catarg, Ballade for harp solo, 1989
  • Diptic for oboe, clarinet and bassoon, 1989
  • Lamento for soprano, two violas da gamba, harpsichord and percussion, 1994
  • The Bells on a poem by Edgar Allan Poe for mixed choir and percussion
  • Fantasia by piano -forte et cetera, Pantomime for piano and two other instrumentalists, 1998
  • Tablouri vivante voice, instruments and dance, 1999
  • Invocatio, Poem for soprano, violin, piano and chamber orchestra, 1999
  • Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
  • Romanian composer
  • Born in 1931
  • Woman
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