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Adina Spire
12+ albums
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Born in Arad, Romania, on 25th December 1977, Adina Spire is a classical composer for sacred music for Catholic and Orthodox liturgies. After having studied cello since the age of 4 and later composition, first in Arad then in Switzerland and Berlin, she worked almost exclusively in her native Romania as sacred music composer, choir and orchestra director and teacher for film music. Her composition works are strongly influenced by the symbolism of traditional and contemporary Easter religious music with some tone of gypsy folk tradition. In the same way, a purely mathematical symbolism which is often used for its own sake by modern Western composers, is completely absent in the works of Adina Spire, who try to restore sacred music in its ancestral spiritual roots, with the composer's intention in using feelings, experiences, thoughts, events - sometimes even the actual people - for which her music stands. An attempt to put any interpretation on her music has to make references to the mysterious Romanian old culture and recent history context. The fact is that it takes far more than even the shrewdest formal analysis to understand a work of art; specifically, it takes sympathetic intuition guided by an acquaintance with that work's historical and cultural context. The historical and cultural context of Adina Spire music was in 1989 the revolution of Romania against the totalitarian government and the suffering of the people during the subsequent civil war, including the suffe
