One of the most fascinating and versatile musicians of the first half of the twentieth century, George Enescu composed only one opera. Oedipe would occupy the composer intermittently for more than twenty years, and it eventually premiered at the Paris

The Greatest Musician You May Not Know In her Grove Music Online article on George Enescu (1881-1955), Valentina Sandu-Dediu hails her compatriot as “Romania’s greatest composer, the leading figure in Romanian musical life in the first half of the 20th

A product of a 19-year-old composer, George Enescu’s Romanian Rhapsody No. 1, completed in 1901, is thought to be a loosely connected set of episodes sources on folk dances and folk songs. But although these are seemingly ‘as found’, Enescu

In 1935, Romanian composer George Enescu (1881-1955) started working on what was going to be a symphonic suite entitled Voix de la nature (Voice of Nature). He only completed one movement, Nuages d’automne sur les forêts (Autumn Clouds over the