Horațiu Rădulescu

Horațiu Rădulescu (born January 7, 1942 in Bucharest , Romania , † September 25, 2008 in Paris ) was a French composer of Romanian origin.

Life

Ideally influenced by the imagination of Edgar Varèse , he was particularly concerned with the invention of complex sound cosms in the field of microtonality and spectral music . He received private violin lessons from Nina Alexandrescu, a student of George Enescu , and later studied at the Bucharest Music Academy with Tiberiu Olah (composition), Ștefan Niculescu (analysis) and Aurel Stroe (orchestration and formalized music). After graduating with a “Premier Nommé” diploma in 1969, he moved to Paris.

From 1970 to 1972 he attended courses from John Cage , György Ligeti , Karlheinz Stockhausen and Iannis Xenakis at the International Summer Courses for New Music as well as from Mauricio Kagel and Luc Ferrari in Cologne. From 1979 to 1981 he studied computer-aided composition ( algorithmic composition ) and psychoacoustics at IRCAM in Paris .

In 1983 he founded the soloist ensemble European Lucero in Paris with the Arditti Quartet , Pierre-Yves Artaud and other musicians , which has since performed many concerts in Europe and North America. From 1988–89 he was “Composer in Residence” in Berlin with a DAAD scholarship . From 1989 to 1990 he was able to work in San Francisco, Venice and Rome thanks to a French Villa Medici grant. In 1991 he started the Lucero Festival with master classes for new music.

His compositions have been published on numerous CDs, some of which have been awarded prizes. His entire oeuvre comprises more than 100 works, including 6 string quartets, 5 piano sonatas, a piano concerto and many works for unconventional ensembles.

In 1974 Rădulescu received French citizenship; most recently he lived in Switzerland.

Works (selection)

Taaroa (1969) for orchestra (1969)
Credo for 9 cellos (1969)
Flood for the Eternal's Origins for general sound sources (1970)
Everlasting Longings for 24 strings (1972)
in ko 'tro - Mioritic Space for 11 speakers, string orchestra, electronic and natural tones (1973)
Capricorn's nostalgic crickets for seven identical woodwind instruments (1972/1980)
Hierophany lecture in 42 languages with 42 children (1973)
Wild Incantesimo for 9 orchestras, 162 musicians (1978)
Lamento di Gesù for large orchestra and 7 psalteries (1973–75)
A Doini for 17 musicians with sound icons (1974)
Thirteen Dreams Ago for 11x3 strings (1978)
Doruind for 48 voices in 7 groups (1976)
Do Emerge Ultimate Silence for 34 children's voices in groups with 34 spectrally tuned monochords (1974/84)
4th string quartet - "infinite to be cannot be infinite, infinite anti-be could be infinite" for 9 string quartets (1976-87)
Inner Time for solo clarinet; Inner Time II (1993) for 7 clarinets (1983)
Iubiri (Amours) for 16 players with sound icons (1980/1)
Clepsydra for 16 players with sound icons (1983)
The other for viola solo or cello solo or violin solo or counter bass solo in precisely tuned fifths (1983)
Astray for two duos (1983/84)
Awakening infinity for large ensemble of 25 players (1983)
Frenetico il longing di amare for one voice (bass), flute, sound icon (1984)
Dizzy Divinity I for (bass, alto or large) flute (1985)
Sensual Sky for ensemble: flute in G, cello, alto saxophone, trombone, sound icon, violin, viola, cello, double bass (1985)
Intimate Rituals for 4 sound icons with or without other soloists (1985)
"forefeeling" remembrances for 14 identical voices (1985)
Christe Eleison for organ (1986)
Mirabilia Mundi - Music for the Speyer Cathedral (1986) for 7 large groups with up to 88 musicians.
Byzantine Prayer for 40 flutists with 72 flutes (1988)
Dr. Kai Hong's Diamond Mountain for 61 spectral gongs and soloists (1991)
2nd piano sonata - "being and non-being create each other" op. 82 (1991)
Animae morte carent for oboe d'amore and spectral piano (1992/95)
3rd piano sonata - "you will endure forever" op. 86 (1992/99)
Angolo Divino for large orchestra (1993/94)
Amen for organ (1993/94)
String quartet No. 5 "before the universe was born" (1990/95)
Piano Concerto "The Quest" (1996)
String Quartet No. 6 "practicing eternity" (1992)
4th piano sonata "like a well ... older than God" op. 92 (1993)
Amor medicabilis nullis herbis (1996) for soprano, clarinet and violoncello
lux animae for violoncello or viola (1996)
l'exil interieur Sonata for cello and piano (1997)
5th piano sonata "settle your dust, this is the primal identity" (2003)
Cinerum for four voices and ensemble (2005)

literature

Jean-Noel von der Weid: The music of the 20th century . Insel, Frankfurt / M. 2001, p. 521ff, ISBN 3-458-17068-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Rădulescu, Horațiu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French composer
DATE OF BIRTH	January 7, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bucharest , Romania
DATE OF DEATH	September 25, 2008
Place of death	Paris