Dumitru Fărcaş

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Dumitru Fărcaş (Groşi, Maramureş, Romania, 12 May 1938 – 7 August 2018) was a Romanian taragot player. He played the instrument on all major stages in the world and made the taragot known all over the world. The taragot is a Hungarian/Romanian/Turkish reed instrument related to the saxophone and clarinet. Dumitru Fărcaş was born in Groşi, Transylvania, Romania. He grew up in a family of pipe players, and his older brothers played the clarinet. He studied the oboe at the Gheorghe Dima Music Academy in Cluj-Napoca. He was the leader of the "Mărţişorul" orchestra from 1962, with which he won many national and international awards. He was made Honorary citizen of the cities Cluj-Napoca, Bucharest, Reşiţa and Baia Mare, as well as Pyongyang. In 2008 he was awarded Doctor honoris causa by the Gheorghe Dima Music Academy. In 2009 he became the honorary patron of the tarogato/taragot website "11fhMSE.com ". The tárogató (töröksíp, Turkish pipe; plural tárogatók or, anglicized, tárogatós; Romanian: taragot or torogoata) refers to two different woodwind instruments commonly used in both Hungarian and Romanian folk music. The modern tárogató was intended to be a recreation of the original tárogató, but the two instruments are thought to have little in common. Mention of the tárogató in Hungarian writings dates back at least as long ago as the 15th century. It is not clear whether it was first brought into Europe by the Hungarians when they first emigrated from the east in the 9th

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Dumitru Fărcaș-Taragot, Vol. 1

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Dumitru Fărcaș - taragot, Vol. 1

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Dumitru Fărcaș-Taragot, Vol. 2

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Dumitru Fărcaș - taragot, Vol. 2

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Romania - Wild Sounds from Transylvania, Wallachia and Moldavia

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A Virtuoso Of The Taragot And The Oboe (Vol. I)

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The Art Of The Romanian Taragot

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A Virtuoso Of The Taragot And The Oboe (Vol. III)

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Balkan Blues - Souffles de L'Ame

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A Virtuoso Of The Taragot (Vol. II)

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Trésors folkloriques Roumains

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Romanian Folk Dances

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