Felicia Donceanu

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

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

Until 1958 she worked in the music department of the publishing house Literatură și Artă , then until 1966 with the Editura Muzicală . She wrote articles and reports for magazines such as Muzica , Contemporanul , Munca and Azi , wrote texts for vocal works by other composers and her own compositions, and wrote scripts for radio broadcasts and musical-choreographic performances. She also emerged as an illustrator of children's books.

Donceanu composed symphonic and chamber music works, theatrical music and vocal works. At the International Composition Competition in Mannheim in 1961 she received an honorable mention. She has received several awards from the Romanian Composers Union, in 1981 the Order of Merit for First Class Culture and in 1984 the George Enescu Prize of the Romanian Academy .

Works

• Meșterul Manole , symphonic poem, 1956, 1968, 1977
• Incidental music to Tartuffe by Molière , 1965
• Incidental music to Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare , 1965
• Inscripție pe un catarg , ballade for harp solo, 1989
• Diptic for oboe, clarinet and bassoon, 1989
• Lamento for soprano, two viols, harpsichord and percussion, 1994
• The Bells based on a poem by Edgar Allan Poe for mixed choir and percussion
• Fantasia per piano-forte et cetera , pantomime for pianist and two other instrumentalists, 1998
• Tablouri vivante voice, instruments and dance, 1999
• Invocatio , Poem for soprano, violin, piano and chamber orchestra, 1999