Considerații teologice și estetico-muzicale asupra Recviemului în creația românească
Theological and aesthetic-musical considerations on the Requirem in the Romanian creation

Summary/Abstract: Inspired by the brilliant musicological work of the composer and professor Adrian Pop - The Romanian Requiem –, in this paper the author makes an theological-musical analysis on this vocal-symphonic genre in the Romanian creation. More precisely, the author is focusing on the Parastasis Requiem (Recviemul parastas), composed by Marțian Negrea (+ 1973) and on a recent masterpiece of the genre, Commemoration – A Parastasis Requirem (Pomenire-Un recviem parastas) by Ștefan Niculescu (+ 2008). The purpose of the study is to see how this synthesis between two different cultures – Western and Eastern – was achieved, both representing the psychological springs of a composition referring to the theme of the “great passage” and to highlight the theological, liturgical and musical means of expressing it at its finest.

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