Vasile Ijac and Musical Life in Interwar Cluj
Vasile Ijac and Musical Life in Interwar Cluj

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to capture some relevant episodes from the effervescent musical life of Cluj during the interwar period (ennobled by Enescu’s recitals), based on certain biographical stages and events from the (instrumental, chamber and symphonic) compositional and musicological activity of Vasile Ijac from Banat (1899-1975), who completed his professional training at the composition school of the Cluj Conservatory – where he studied with Maestro Marțian Negrea –, and forged an outstanding teaching career at the Timisoara Conservatory. The paper also includes references to the pre-university institutions of Cluj where he worked as a teacher, as well as significant passages extracted from the chronicles published in the pages of local periodicals, which complete the atmosphere of high spirituality of a cosmopolitan burg with an opulent cultural tradition. The appreciations of Nicolae Ursu, a coryphaeus of the national folklore and a prominent representative of Romanian choral composition and conducting, present in those years in Cluj, outline the personality of Vasile Ijac, the father of symphonism in Banat, a former student of the Schola Cantorum in the City of Lights, winner of the ”George Enescu” National Composition Prize

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