ŞTEFAN NICULESCU, EULOGIZED IN GERMANY FOR HIS CONTRIBUTION TO THE CURRENT EUROPEAN MUSICAL HERITAGE
ŞTEFAN NICULESCU, EULOGIZED IN GERMANY FOR HIS CONTRIBUTION TO THE CURRENT EUROPEAN MUSICAL HERITAGE

Summary/Abstract: The volume “Ştefan Niculescu”, published in 2013 by BIS-Verlag der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, edited by Eva-Maria Houben, Michael Heinemann and Violeta Dinescu, is part of a series entitled Archiv für osteuropäische Musik. Quellen und Forschungen, translatable as The East European Music Archive. Sources and Research. This series of volumes seeks to offer a bird’s-eye view over contemporary classical music from an intercultural perspective, bringing together its Eastern and Western European roots. An essential contribution to this project belongs to Violeta Dinescu, currently a professor and doctoral advisor at the above mentioned university. The reference librarian of The Oldenburg University Library, Karl-Ernst Went, and Violeta Dinescu set up a library section which, due to their efforts, houses hundreds of books as well as video and audio recordings referring especially to the 20th century music in Europe. Thus, owing to the woman composer’s considerable efforts, and with the help of UCMR (Union of Composers and Musicologists from Romania), the Oldenburg University Library has been equipped with an impressive database covering old and contemporary Romanian music. Obviously, the range of topics of this series of volumes is going to be varied, consisting of contributions from various musicologists from all over Europe; these contributions, integrated in cultural, historical and geographical contexts, will address traditional European music, Byzantine music or the work of already established composers. Within the Oldenburg University Violeta Dinescu has also managed to organize throughout the years a few international musicology symposia focusing on Romanian music; therein, world famous musicologists as well as Romanian guests revealed, from a universal perspective, their outlooks on Romanian composers such as George Enescu, Ştefan Niculescu, Paul Constantinescu, Romanian women composers, Pascal Bentoiu, etc.

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