Anton Pann – protopsalter, professor, composer and translator of church songs into romanian in the first half of 19th century
Anton Pann – protopsalter, professor, composer and translator of church songs into romanian in the first half of 19th century

Summary/Abstract: Anton Pann was one of the most influential Romanian cantors and composers of church music in the first half of the 19th Century, a period in which the Romanian Orthodox Church was beginning to validate singing in Romanian. He was a certified expert in the Kukuzelian and Chrisantic systems of musical notation, both of which he had deeply explored alongside Dionisie Fotino and Petru Emanuil Efesiu in Bucharest. Due to his extensive knowledge and training, he became a singer in the churches of Bucharest, he translated and composed plenty of musical pieces in Romanian which resulted in the creation of a valuable repertory dedicated to the Church and to the Romanian musical and educational system, as established in various historical and psaltic music documents. His musical legacy has been the subject of many research efforts of musicologists and analysts, as well as the topic of interest for numerous composers and interpreters of clerical and secular music because it constitutes a crucial part of our invaluable patrimony.

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