DOUĂ PARTITURI ASCUNSE DE REGIMUL COMUNIST: CÂNTAREA BASARABIEI ȘI MOARTEA EROULUI DE PAUL CONSTANTINESCU
TWO SCORES HIDDEN DURING THE COMMUNIST REGIME: CÂNTAREA BASARABIEI AND MOARTEA EROULUI BY PAUL CONSTANTINESCU

Summary/Abstract: Paul Constantinescu had close ties with musicians from Bassarabia and Bucovina from a young age. In 1936 he published in Cernăuţi the work” Costea”, on lyrics by George Coşbuc, with the support of his friends Liviu Rusu and Paul Streinul, at the Mitropolitan Silvestru’s Priningt House. In the same year, the second performance of the” Liturghia în stil psaltic” („Liturgy in Psaltic Style”) also took place in Cernăuţi, and in 1939 the first performance of the Sinfonietta was held in the same city. This paper brings to the fore two works composed by Paul Constantinescu in 1941, the year when Marshal Ion Antonescu signed the June 22nd decree that marked Romania’s entry into the war. Animated by strong patriotic emotions, the composer wrote, in a few days, two works: the cantata „Moartea eroului” (Death of the Hero) and the symphonic poem” Cântarea Basarabiei”(Singing to Bassarabia). If during the communist regime, the two works were kept well hidden in the archives of the Romanian Union of Composers and Musicologists, they were recovered for the cultural circuit after the events of 1989. „Cântarea Basarabiei” was published in the year of the Great Union Centenary at the Music Publishing House in Romania.

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