CONSTANTIN SILVESTRI – AN OVERVIEW OF PIANO MUSIC
CONSTANTIN SILVESTRI – AN OVERVIEW OF PIANO MUSIC

Summary/Abstract: The article proposes a detailed overview of Constantin Silvestri's piano works, an exploration of his compositional style and an interpretation of his harmonic, melodic, rhythmic, dynamic, and expressive language. A continuous nuancing of the composer's language is observed throughout the opus, a permanent enrichment of his compositional style. From the neoclassical influences of the Bartók/Stravinsky/Prokofiev type to folkloric accents or the reflections of expressionism, the composer develops a personal language, difficult to fit into a particular style of the modern era, as he tends to incorporate each of them in his own original way, processing them creatively in the rhetoric of his compositional grace. Constantin Silvestri's piano music represents a central profile in the architecture of his compositions, the piano being the most exploited instrument that runs through his entire creation from the first opus, Suitele, to the penultimate, Sonata IV. His piano works are distinguished by twelve opus, which can be divided into two stylistic periods: the first, neoclassical (of his youth), and the second expressionist (with moments of stylised folklore), in the last opus.

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