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