Ștefan Niculescu

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Ștefan Niculescu (born July 31, 1927 in Moreni , † January 22, 2008 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian composer .

Life

Niculescu studied from 1941 to 1946 at the Royal Music Academy , then until 1950 at the Polytechnic Institute and finally again until 1957 at the Conservatory. His teachers were Mihail Andricu (composition), Mihail Jora (harmony and counterpoint), Theodor Rogalski (orchestration) and Muza Germani-Ciomac (piano). In 1966 he studied electro-acoustic music with Mauricio Kagel in Munich. He also attended courses from György Ligeti , Karlheinz Stockhausen , Erhard Karkoschka , Günther Becker , Christoph Caskel , Saschko Gawriloff , Siegfried Palm and Aloys Kontarsky at the Darmstadt Summer Courses 1966–1968 .

From 1958 to 1960 Niculescu lived as a piano teacher in Bucharest and then worked at the Institute for Art History G. Oprescu until 1963 . He then worked as a lecturer, since 1993 as a professor of composition and music analysis at the Bucharest University of Music. He also gave guest lectures in Zagreb, Paris, Valencia and Darmstadt.

From 1971 to 1972 he was “composer-in-residence” of the German Academic Exchange Service in Berlin. In the same year he received the prize of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In addition to several prizes from the Romanian Academy and the Romanian Composers Union, he received the International Record Critics Award in 1985 and the Herder Prize in Vienna in 1994 .

In 1991 Niculescu founded the Săptămâna Internațională a Muzicii Noi . In 1993 he became a corresponding member and in 1996 a full member of the Romanian Academy .

Works

  • Sonata for clarinet and piano, 1955
  • Symphony , 1956
  • String trio , (1957, 1976)
  • Cantata I for women's or children's choir and orchestra (text by Nina Cassian ), 1959, 1974
  • Cantata II for tenor, mixed choir and orchestra (Text: Gellu Naum ), 1960
  • Cantata III “Răscruce” for mezzo-soprano and five wind instruments (text by Tudor Arghezi ), 1960
  • Febre , music for a theater production by Horia Lovinescu , 1962
  • Scènes , Suite for winds, percussion and double bass, 1962, 1965
  • Le livre avec Apolodor , music for a theater production by Gellu Naum , 1962
  • Symphony for 15 soloists, 1963
  • Elefănțelul curios , music for a theater production by Nina Cassian , 1963
  • Inventionen for clarinet and piano, 1963–1965
  • Wind sextet , 1964
  • Calea Victoriei , film music, 1965
  • Cele trei neveste ale lui Don Cristobald , music for a theater production by Valentin Silvestru based on a play by Federico García Lorca , 1965
  • Doctor Faustus XX , film music, 1965
  • Hétéromorphie for large orchestra, 1967
  • Formants for seventeen solo strings, 1968
  • Keyboard game for piano, 1968
  • Heraclit's Aphorisms for twenty solo voices, 1969
  • Unisonos I for large orchestra, 1970
  • Miul Cobiul , incidental music, 1970
  • Triplum I for flute, cello and piano, 1970
  • Ison Ia for fourteen solo instruments, 1971–1973
  • Ison Ib for large orchestra, 1971–1973
  • Triplum II for clarinet, cello and piano, 1972
  • Unisonos II for orchestra, 1972
  • Cartea cu Apolodor , children's opera (libretto Gellu Naum), 1974
  • Ison II for four flutes, trumpets, horns, trombones and percussion, 1975–1976
  • Fragments I for twelve voices, flute and percussion, 1975
  • Symphony No.1 for orchestra, 1975
  • Echos I for violin, 1977
  • Fragments II, III for instrumental soloists, voice, percussion and twelve instruments, 1977
  • Symphony No.2 “Opus Dacicum” for large orchestra, 1978.80
  • Sincronie I , for two to twelve instruments, 1979
  • Snødronning , incidental music for a piece based on Hans Christian Andersen , 1980
  • The Palm Sundays of a Horse Dealer , music for a theater production by Sütö András based on Heinrich von Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas , 1980
  • Sincronie II “Hommage à Enesco et Bartók” for orchestra, 1981
  • Fat - Frumos din lacrima , music for a puppet ballet, 1982
  • Sincronie per cinque for wind quintet, 1982
  • Symphony No.3 “Cantos” for saxophone and orchestra, 1984
  • Echoes II for violin and synthesizer, 1984
  • Ricercare in uno for clarinet, violin and synthesizer, 1984
  • Duplum I for violin and piano or synthesizer, 1984
  • Octuplum for flute, clarinet, saxophone, drums, mandolin, guitar, violin and cello, 1985
  • Sincronie III for flute, oboe and bassoon, 1985
  • Sincronie IV for flute, oboe, violin and cello, 1985
  • Duplum II for clarinet and piano, 1986
  • Hétérophonies for Montreux for flute, english horn, clarinet, horn and bassoon, 1986
  • A Due for clarinet and bassoon, 1986
  • Sincronie IV for clarinet, percussion and piano, 1987
  • Monophony for bassoon, 1988
  • Invocatio for twelve voices, 1989
  • Chant-son for saxophone, 1989
  • Incantations I for six percussionists, 1991
  • Axion for female choir and saxophone, 1992
  • Sextuplum for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, percussion, violin and cello, 1993
  • Psalm XII for six male voices, 1993
  • Sequentia for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello and percussion, 1994
  • Symphony No.4 “Deisis” for 21 soloists and large orchestra, 1995
  • Symphony No.5 “Litanies” for large orchestra, 1996–1997
  • Umdecimum for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, two violins, viola and cello, 1997–1998
  • Incantations II for solo drums, 2000
  • Prohodiri , Romanian requiem for soloists, choir and orchestra, 2000–2003

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personal data
SURNAME Niculescu, Ștefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Moreni
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 2008
Place of death Bucharest