EXPRESSIONIST TENDENCIES IN THE ROMANIAN OPERA OF THE FIRST DECADES OF THE 20H CENTURY
EXPRESSIONIST TENDENCIES IN THE ROMANIAN OPERA OF THE FIRST DECADES OF THE 20H CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: Expressionism in Romanian music in the first decades of the 20th century is not a novelty, because of the meticulous musicological research belonging to Clemansa Liliana Firca. We list the sections devoted to the particular manifestation of this orientation in the volumes Directions in the Romanian Music (1900-1930), Modernity and Avant-garde in the Pre- and Inter-war Music (1900-1940) or the study Resonances of Expressionism Esthetics in the Romanian Musical Creation, which proved phenomenon’s viability in certain creations of the orchestral (suite), scenic (ballet) sphere, and whose echoes were partially felt in the opera genre. Starting from the researcher’s pertinent remarks, this article aims at highlighting the adaptation of the European current features in the Romanian scenic area in the first half of 20th century, on the line of the exaggerated realism in The Misfortune (Sabin Drăgoi, 1927), of Igor Stravinski’s influence with his stille barbaro veiled in A Stormy Night (Paul Constantinescu, 1934), to the musical-dramatic peculiarities which attest the sublimated expressionism of Oedipus masterpiece (George Enescu, 1931). 1 Clemansa Liliana Firca, DIRECŢII ÎN MUZICA ROMÂNEASCĂ 1900-1930 (DIRECTIONS IN THE ROMANIAN MUSIC) (Bucharest: Ed. Muzicală, 1974), p. 153.

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