Violeta Dinescu

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Violeta Dinescu (2005)

Violeta Dinescu (born July 13, 1953 in Bucharest ) is a Romanian pianist , composer and university teacher . Her most important work to date is the children's opera Der 35. Mai, based on the novel Der 35. Mai or Konrad rides in die Südsee by Erich Kästner , which premiered in 1986 at the Nationaltheater Mannheim and has since been performed in numerous opera houses in German-speaking countries.

Romania

Violeta Dinescu began studying music in 1972 at the Ciprian Porumbescu Conservatory in Bucharest, where she passed her state examination with distinction in 1976, as well as three diplomas in composition , piano and pedagogy . She then deepened her composition studies with Myriam Marbe . In 1978 she received a teaching position at the George Enescu Music School in Bucharest for music theory , aesthetics , counterpoint , harmony and piano. In 1980 she was accepted into the Romanian Composers Association. The first concert performances, radio recordings and composition prizes followed.

Germany

Violeta Dinescu has lived and worked in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1982. In 1986 her first opera Hunger und Durst nach Eugène Ionesco was premiered in Freiburg. Since 1986 she has been a lecturer at various German universities and since 1996 she has held a professorship for applied composition at the University of Oldenburg , where she organizes colloquia with composers. a. with Jean-Luc Darbellay and Graham Waterhouse . So far she has received over fifty international prizes and awards for her compositions. Your work is published by Verlag Dohr .

Essential works

  • Akanua , piano, 1974
  • Sonata , violin or viola, piano, 1975
  • In my garden , text by Ana Blandiana , children's choir, 1980
  • Mondnächte , text by Joseph von Eichendorff , mezzo-soprano, saxophone, drums, 1986
  • Acrostic Poem , Orchestra, 1983
  • Der Kreisel , ballet based on Eduard Mörike , orchestra, 1985
  • Hunger and Thirst , chamber opera, libretto by the composer based on Eugène Ionesco , chamber orchestra (14 players), 1985
  • Concerto , voice, orchestra, 1986
  • Quatrain , text by François Villon , female voice, 1986
  • Dona nobis pacem , mezzo-soprano, cello (+ percussion), 1987
  • Tabu , film music for a silent film by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau , Chamber Orchestra, 1988
  • ICHTHYS , violin, cello, piano, 1991
  • May 35 , children's opera, libretto by Ulrike Wendt and Florian Zwipf based on Erich Kästner , 3 soloists, 8-part choir, children's choir, orchestra, 1986
  • Eréndira , chamber opera, libretto by the composer based on Gabriel García Márquez , 7 soloists, chamber orchestra, 1992
  • Pentecost oratorio , 5 soloists, mixed choir, chamber orchestra, 1993
  • Chess novella , chamber opera, libretto by the composer based on Stefan Zweig , 3 soloists, chamber ensemble, 1994
  • L'ORA X , orchestra, 1995
  • Self-Reflections I / II , piano, electronics, 1996–97
  • Effi Briest , ballet after Theodor Fontane , orchestra, 1998
  • Vortex - clouds I, II and III , chamber orchestra, 1998
  • Licht-Bruch , accordion, 2001
  • Rugá , clarinet, double bass, accordion, 2001
  • Herzriss , opera in nuce , libretto by the composer based on Homer , Ionesco and Márquez, female voice and percussion, 2005
  • Battlefield of Marathon , piano, commissioned work for piano fever , Berlin, initiated by the painting of the same name by Carl Rottmann , Alte Nationalgalerie , Berlin; Premiere: June 25, 2011 in the Wandelhalle of the Gemäldegalerie Berlin

The complete catalog of works can be found on the Colgate University website .

literature

  • Eva-Maria Houben (Ed.): Violeta Dinescu . Pfau, Saarbrücken 2004, ISBN 3-89727-273-3 .
  • Nina Noeske: Violeta Dinescu's music for Friedrich Murnau's silent film Tabu : A musical topography of the 'gaze' . In: Blickwechsel East / West. Gender Topographies , ed. by Nina Noeske and Melanie Unseld, Hildesheim, Olms 2009 (= Jahrbuch Musik und Gender 2), pp. 27–36, ISBN 978-3-487-14284-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography, appreciation and list of works , compiled by Eva-Maria Houben.
  2. ^ University of Oldenburg Composers Colloquia, October 2009.
  3. ↑ Catalog raisonné . Colgate University. Retrieved November 22, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Dinescu, Violeta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian pianist, composer and university teacher
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest