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George Enescu
12+ albums
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George Enescu (1881-1955) was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor, and teacher. Enescu was born on the 19th August 1881 in the village of Liveni, Romania (Dorohoi County at the time, today Botoşani County), and showed musical talent from early in his childhood. A child prodigy, Enescu created his first musical composition at the age of five. Shortly thereafter, his father presented him to the professor and composer Eduard Caudella. At the age of seven, he entered the Vienna Conservatory, where he studied with Joseph Hellmesberger, Jr, Robert Fuchs, and Sigismund Bachrich, and graduated before his thirteenth birthday, earning the silver medal. In his Viennese concerts young Enescu played works by Brahms, Sarasate and Mendelssohn. In 1895 he went to Paris to continue his studies. He studied violin with Martin Pierre Marsick, harmony with André Gédalge, and composition with Jules Massenet and Gabriel Fauré. Many of Enescu's works were influenced by Romanian folk music, his most popular compositions being the two Romanian Rhapsodies (1901–1902), the opera Œdipe (1936), and the suites for orchestra. He also wrote five symphonies (two of them unfinished), a symphonic poem Vox maris, and much chamber music (three sonatas for violin and piano, two for cello and piano, a piano trio, quartets with and without piano, a wind dectet, an octet for strings, a piano quintet, and a chamber symphony for twelve solo instruments). In 1923, he made his debut as a conductor in a
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Cello Sonata In F Minor, Op. 26, No. 1: II. Allegretto Scherzando
1,95722 Romanian Rhapsodies, Op. 11: Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 In A Major
1,77832 Romanian Rhapsodies, Op. 11: No. 1 in A major
1,1914Légende
1,0445Romanian Rhapsody, Op. 11, No. 1
9706Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: Chaconne
9447Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003: Fuga
9358Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: Courante
9219Roumanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A major, Op. 11
84010Cantabile et presto
834albums
Enescu: J.S. Bach - Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin
Enescu: Complete Works for Cello & Piano
Enescu: Complete Works for Piano Solo
Enescu: Composer, Conductor, Pianist, Violinist & Teacher, Vol. 6
ENESCU: Romanian Poem / Romanian Rhapsodies Nos. 1 and 2
Enescu: Complete Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 1
ENESCU: Suites Nos. 1 and 2 / Concert Overture
Enescu: Early Chamber Music
ENESCU: Symphony No. 3 / Chamber Symphony
Enescu: Symphonies Nos. 1-3; 2 Romanian Rhapsodies
Bartok / Enescu: Concerto for Orchestra / Romanian Rhapsodies
Enescu: Complete Works for Solo Piano