Constantin Brăiloiu

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Constantin Brăiloiu recording a sound with a musician (1934)

Constantin Brăiloiu (born August 13, 1893 in Bucharest , † December 20, 1958 in Geneva ) was a Romanian composer and internationally known ethnomusicologist .

biography

He studied in Bucharest (1901–1907), Vienna (1907–1909), Vevey and Lausanne (1909–1912) and Paris (1912–1914). In 1920 he founded the Societatea Compozitorilor Români (SCR, German: Society of Romanian Composers ) together with other Romanian composers as its general secretary he acted between 1926 and 1943.

In 1928 he initiated the founding of the Arhiva de folklore (Folklore Archive) belonging to the Composers' Association , which soon became one of the world's largest folk music archives of its time. From 1928 he visited various regions of Romania with the group of the sociology professor Dimitrie Gusti to make sound recordings. In 1931 he published the article “ Schița a unei Metode de folklore Muzical ” (sketch of a method for musical folklore), one of the basic texts of music ethnology.

In 1943 Constantin Brăiloiu became cultural advisor at the Romanian embassy in Bern . Because of the political events in his home country, he stayed in Switzerland. In 1944 he organized another archive in Geneva, Les Archives internationales de musique populaire (AIMP) , which belongs to the Musée d'ethnographie de Genève . He worked as director of the AIMP from 1944 until his death in 1958 and collected music sound recordings from all over the world. In particular he published from 1951 to 1958 his " Collection universal de musique populaire enregistrée " (Universal collection of recorded folk music) to 40 records (at a speed of 78 min -1 ). In 1948 he also became a lecturer ( maître de conférence ) at the CNRS in Paris.

Works

  • Schița a unei method de folklore musical . In: Boabe de Grâu, Vol. 2, No. 4, 1931.
  • Sur une ballade roumaine: (la Mioritza) . Kundig, Geneva 1946.
  • Speaking of yodelling . In: Congress report of the International Society for Musicology, 4th Congress, Basel 1949 . Bärenreiter Verlag, Basel 1951, pp. 69–71.
  • Le rythme aksak . Abbeville 1952.
  • Sur une mélodie russe . In: Pierre Souvtchinsky, Vladimir Fédorov, Gisèle Brelet (eds.): Musique russe . Presses universitaires de France, Paris 1953.
  • Le vers popular roumain chanté . Ed. de l'Institut universitaire roumain Charles I, Paris 1956.
  • La rythmique enfantine: notions liminaires . Elsevier, Paris / Bruxelles 1956.
  • Folklore musical . Encyclopédie de la musique Fasquelle, Paris 1959.
  • Reflections on the creation musicale collective . In: Diogène . (Paris) No. 25, 1959, pp. 83-93.
  • Vie musicale d'un village: recherches sur le répertoire de Dragus (Roumanie) 1929-1932 . Institut universitaire roumain Charles Ier, Paris 1960.
  • Problèmes d'ethnomusicologie . Minkoff Reprint, Geneva 1973. (Collected works by Gilbert Rouget compiled and presented)
  • Problems of ethnomusicology . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1984. (English translation by AL Lloyd of the collected works)
  • Opera 1-5 . Ed. muzicală a uniuni compozitorilor din Republica Socialistă Romănia, Bucharest, Vol. 1: 1967, Vol. 2: 1969, Vol. 3: 1974, Vol. 4: 1979, Vol. 5: 1981. (Collected works, translated and presented in Romanian by Emilia Comișel)
  • Opere 6. Great part . Editura Muzicală, Bucharest 1998. (With the assistance of Emilia Comișel)

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personal data
SURNAME Brăiloiu, Constantin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian composer and ethnomusicologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1958
Place of death Geneva , Switzerland