Romanian choral music in the interwar period
Romanian choral music in the interwar period

Summary/Abstract: The spiritual and artistic climate of the musical life in Romania during the interwar period was shaped by the influences of the European musical culture, namely French, Austrian and German. In the first half of the twentieth century, most of our composers, in their quest for a national language, focused on different European styles, which they fused within their own culture. Among the most important representatives of this period were: D. G. Kiriac, Gh. Cucu, Sabin Dragoi, Gh. Danga, T. Popovici, Ion Vidu, Paul Constantinescu and others. The interwar generation was a strong advocate of a specific Romanian music. The composers of this period achieved a synthesis of the national with the universal in the musical language, and brought the Romanian cultivated creation to the technical and artistic level of world Postromantic music, at a time when the expressive capacity of music was increasingly neglected.

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