The Reason of Being - Frontispiece to a Special Issue Dedicated to Cornel Țăranu
The Reason of Being - Frontispiece to a Special Issue Dedicated to Cornel Țăranu

Summary/Abstract: I will start with a quotation from a text of mine published in 20142 : “It is clear that the essential symbiosis that took place in Romanian contemporary music after the 50s occurred mainly as a result of the direct contact between the Enescu and Bartók traditions, admirably achieved in terms of creative presences, as well as in terms of the general interest nurtured by the sustained connections between the cultural centres from Romania and, later, after the 60s, from abroad. This “fusion” is particularly evident in the works of Cornel Țăranu, who could hardly be described as a typical representative of what is generally considered to be the Cluj Music School: that is, formed in Professor Sigismund Toduță’s spirit of high authority, in his image and likeness: an absolute Maestro, no doubt. Cornel Țăranu (a versatile spirit who can be anywhere and everywhere all at the same time), in defiance of time and of the changing world, has always remained true to himself, in the same modal-chromatic-musical ambiance, adorned and (often) burdened with the same ineluctable stylistic tics.

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