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Georgescu, Corneliu Dan (b. January 1, 1938, Craiova). Romanian composer, now resident in Germany, of mostly orchestral, chamber, vocal, piano, and electroacoustic works that have been performed throughout Europe; he is also active as an ethnomusicologist and writer.
Mr. Georgescu studied with Tiberiu Alexandru, Mihail Andricu, George Breazul, Ion Dumitrescu, Alfred Mendelsohn, and Tiberiu Olah at the National University of Music in Bucharest from 1956-61. He attended Darmstadt in 1970 and 1974, where he studied with Mauricio Kagel, György Ligeti, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Christian Wolff, and Iannis Xenakis. He also attended a traditional music workshop with Slanchev Brjag in 1977 and attended a seminar with Dimitri Christoff, Ton de Leeuw and William P. Malm in 1990.
Among his honors are six prizes from the Romanian Composers Union (1969-70, 1978, 1982, 1984-85), the George Enescu Prize from the Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences (1974) and the Prize of Romanian Radio and TV (1974).
As a writer, his books are Dance Tunes from Oltenia (1969, Editura Muzicala), Romanian Folk Dance – A Typology of Instrumental Tunes (1984, Editura Muzicala), The Pastoral Repertoire – Alphorn Signals – A Musical Typology (1987, Editura Muzicala), and Improvisation in der traditionellen rumänischen Tanzmusik (1995, K.D. Wagner). In addition, he has contributed numerous articles to leading publications, such as the five-article series The Study of Musical Archetypes for REVUE roumaine d'histoire de l'art (1982-87).
He was active as a researcher at the Institute of Ethnological and Dialectical Research in Bucharest from 1962-83, where he was also director of the music department from 1976-80. He served as an art historian at the G. Oprescu History of Art Institute in Bucharest from 1984-87, worked at the Internationales Institute für traditionelle Musik in Berlin from 1989-91, on a Thyssen-Stipendium, and worked at the Freie Universität in Berlin from 1991-94.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: GeoDanCor@aol.com
Street address: Mr. Corneliu Dan Georgescu, Bismarckstr. 73, 10627 Berlin, Germany
SELECT LIST OF WORKS
STAGE: Model Mioritic (opera, libretto by the composer), 1973
ORCHESTRAL: Partita, 1968; Motive maramuresene, 1970; Models, 1967-73 (each of its three sections may be performed separately: Alb-Negru; Continuo; Rubato); Plays I-IX, 1962-80 (each of its sections may be performed separately: Dances I; Peisaj; Festive Plays; Collages; Refrains; Pianissimo; Long Songs; Variants of a Dance; Echoes of Play); Hommage to Tuculescu (3 symphonies), 1975-85 (each of its symphonies may be performed separately: Simple Harmonies; Horizontals; The Regards of Colors); Hymns, 1988 (section of Umriss für ein Fresko; may be performed separately)
CHAMBER MUSIC: Tanz-Farb-Spiel, violin, tape, 1998; Tua umbra lucida, violin, viola, cello, tape, 2000; Homage to Piet Mondrian, string quartet, tape, 1980-2003 (each of its eight sections may be performed separately: Composition in a Square with Red, Yellow and Blue; Composition with Tons of Pure Color on White Background; Composition in Grey and Black; Composition in Black and White; Composition with Straight Lines; Composition with Triangles and Squares; Composition with Discontinuous Lines; Composition with Elementary Colors); Dialog mit D MOLL, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, violin, cello, piano, percussion, 2003
CHORAL: Umriss für ein Fresko, mixed chorus, orchestra, tape, 1987-2000 (each of its four sections may be performed separately: Colinde [texts from folk sources], mixed chorus, orchestra; Hymns; Et vidi caelum novum [text from the Bible], mixed chorus, orchestra; Elegia [vocalise], mixed chorus, tape)
VOCAL: Wo die Ironie aufhört (text by Heinrich Heine), speaker, flute, viola, tape, 1997; Wolken Wellen Sand (text by Christoph Niess), mezzo-soprano, piano, percussion, tape, 2001; Ritual für die Stille (vocalise), 6 mezzo-sopranos (all + percussion), tape, 2001
PIANO: Sonata, 1958; Eight Static Compositions, piano, tape, 1968; Signs, piano, tape, 1978; Drei Steinsymbole, piano, tape, 1997; Transsilvanische Motive, 2001; Dialog mit CIS MOLL, 2002
ORGAN: Reflecting J.S. Bach, 1999; Contemplative Präludien, 1991-2003 (each of its seven sections may be performed separately: Ascendo; Spatium; Orbis I-V)
ELECTROACOUSTIC: Nordseehorizonte, tape, 1999; Musik für eine lichtvolle Umwandlung, tape, 2000; Ende ein Anfang, tape, 2002; Atemporal Studies, tape, 1980– (ongoing work; each of its two sections may be performed separately: Corona Borealis; Aequillibrium); Crystal Silence, tape, 1989– (ongoing work); New Zealand Meditations, tape, 1998– (ongoing work)
(Last updated on May 26, 2005)
