Mechanical Childhood Impressions – Șerban Marcu’s Reception of George Enescu
Mechanical Childhood Impressions – Șerban Marcu’s Reception of George Enescu

Summary/Abstract: George Enescu’s reception has undergone many changes over time as a result of the different perspectives from which his creation, interpretative work, personality and pedagogy are analysed and perceived. This study presents the way in which Șerban Marcu’s music approaches Enescu’s, the Cluj based composer being stimulated by the N-escu Project initiated by the George Enescu National Museum in Bucharest. Fundamental characteristics of Enescu’s style are combined with new approaches, primarily of an aesthetic nature, which place Enescu’s music in a contemporary mould. Marcu’s compositional idea is analysed correlatively and concretely as it offers an original interpretation of the fundamental landmarks of Enescu’s music, in particular the dreamlike childhood memories in his piece Boîte à musique for Jurjac.

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