Liana Alexandra

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Liana Alexandra (born May 27, 1947 in Bucharest ; † January 10, 2011 there ) was a Romanian composer and music teacher.

Life

Alexandra studied from 1965 to 1971 at the Bucharest Conservatory Ciprian Porumbescu with Tudor Ciortea theory of forms, with Emilia Comișel ethnomusicology and with Tiberiu Olah composition. She received an Enescu Merit Scholarship and attended the Darmstadt Summer Courses in 1974, 1978, 1980 and 1984 .

From 1972 she taught instrument studies, from 1980 also composition, orchestration and music analysis at the Bucharest University of Music. With her husband Șerban Nichifor she formed the Duo Intermedia and she directed the Nuova Musica Consonante-Living Music Foundation Festival . For her compositions she has received five prizes from the Romanian Association of Composers and Musicologists. In 1979 she won first prize at the Carl Maria von Weber Competition in Dresden, and in 1979 and 1980 she participated in the composition competition of the Gaudeamus Foundation , in which no prize was awarded at that time.

Works

  • Symphony I , 1971
  • Cantata for female choir and orchestra based on poems by Lucian Blaga , 1971
  • Music for clarinet, herfe and percussion, 1972
  • "Valences" , symphonic piece, 1973
  • Sonata for flute solo, 1973
  • Concerto for clarinet and orchestra, 1974
  • Lyric Sequence for clarinet, trumpet and piano, 1974
  • Two sequences for soprano and chamber orchestra, 1976
  • "Collages" for wind quintet, 1977
  • Cantata II for soprano, baritone, mixed choir and orchestra based on poems by Lucian Blaga, 1977
  • Cantata III "Country-land, country-idea" for female choir and orchestra based on poems by Nichita Stanescu , 1977
  • Symphony II "Hymns" , 1978
  • "The Snow Queen" , children's opera based on Hans Christian Andersen , 1978
  • "Incantations" II for violin, viola, cello and piano, 1978
  • "Consonances" I for four trombones, 1978
  • "Consonances" II for clarinet and piano, 1979
  • "Consonances" III for organ solo, 1979
  • Concerto for flute, viola and chamber orchestra, 1980
  • "Consonances" V for organ solo, 1980
  • "Images interrupted" for woodwind quintet, 1983
  • "Cadenza" for violin, 1983
  • "Pastorale" for bass, clarinet and piano, 1984
  • "Allegro veloce e caratteristico" for organ, 1985
  • Symphony V , 1985-1986
  • Sonata for six hors , 1986
  • "Larghetto" for chamber string orchestra, 1988
  • Symphony VI , 1988-1989
  • "Intersections" , Sonata for Horn and Piano, 1989
  • Music for Het Trio , 1990
  • "Ierusalem" , symphonic poem, 1990
  • Concerto for string orchestra, 1991
  • "Atre" for flute, clarinet and bassoon, 1991
  • "Cadenza" III for piano, 1992
  • Sonata for piano, 1993
  • Concerto for piano four hands and orchestra, 1993
  • "Fantasy" for cello and piano, 1994
  • "Poem for Romania", "Poem for Madona from Neamt" for soprano and piano based on poems by Eugen Van Itterbeek , 1994
  • "Chant d'amour de la Dame à la Licorne" , chamber opera based on Etienne de Sadeleer , 1995
  • Symphony VIII , 1995-1996
  • Concerto for saxophone and orchestra, 1997
  • "Consonances" VI for recorder quartet, 1997
  • "Five movements" for cello and piano, 1997
  • "Consonances" VII for harp solo, 1998
  • "Pastorale" for wind orchestra, 1999
  • "Parallel musics" for saxophone, cello and piano, 2001
  • "Incantations" III for cello and tape, 2002
  • Concerto for organ and orchestra, 2002
  • Computer music , 2003
  • Computer music , 2004

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personal data
SURNAME Alexandra, Liana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 2011
Place of death Bucharest