THE LIFE AND WORK OF ANTON PANN
THE LIFE AND WORK OF ANTON PANN

Summary/Abstract: During the last decades, Romanian musicology has recorded important achievements in the field of historiographical research, recording and highlighting a musical artistic heritage of great interest for our spiritual identification: Byzantine music and Byzantine tradition, present in Romanian Orthodox liturgical practice for more than five centuries and preserved in a very rich collection of manuscripts belonging to the most distant cultural-artistic epochs of the Orthodox East. The Byzantine era lasted about 1000 years, ie between 325-1453 AD, when the Turks invaded Byzantium, and Greece remained under their rule until the Greek War of Independence between 1821-1834. But in this period of Byzantium it seems that all the arts evolved and flourished, so did music. If we look carefully at all the data presented about the history of Greece, we will see once again the nations that probably contributed to the birth of Byzantine and later Greek music: Dorians, Lydians, Ionians, Persians, Turks, to which is added the Thracians, who were for a time under Greek rule. The series of great personalities also includes the personality of Anton Pann, which we will present and associate with the period in which he spent his life.

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