Wieniawski's Legende and Enescu's The Undead: a Romantic-Neoclassical Dyad.

Authors :: MĂNĂILESCU, Sorana
Source :: Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brasov. Series VIII: Performing Arts. 2022, Vol. 15 Issue 2, p69-78. 10p.
Publication Year :: 2022
Abstract: The present paper examines stylistic change in musical history by comparing the treatment of the same motif, the ill-starred lovers, in a romantic piece, Wieniawski's Legende, Op. 17, and a post-Wagnerian composition by George Enescu: Strigoii (The Undead) Oratory, setting to music Eminescu's homonymous legend, which in its turn, draws on Bidu's Tower legend. Whereas Wieniawski was writing a grieving soul's complaint in the manner of romantic self-expressionism, Enescu was attached to the national poet, to his people's ancient past and to folk legends in the spirit of the neoclassical aesthetics of a part, the most prolific one of musical modernism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Language :: English
ISSN :: 2344200X
Volume :: 15
Issue :: 2
Database :: Academic Search Index
Journal :: Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brasov. Series VIII: Performing Arts
Publication Type :: Academic Journal
Accession number :: 162774798
Full Text :: https://doi.org/10.31926/but.pa.2022.15.64.2.8