Horaţiu Rădulescu

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Please note: the correct tag for this artist is Horațiu Rădulescu Horațiu Rădulescu (7 January 1942 – 25 September 2008) was a Romanian-French composer, best known for the spectral technique of composition. Rădulescu was born in Bucharest on January 7 1942. He is best known for the spectral technique of composition which he has developed since the late 1960s. He studied the violin privately with Nina Alexandrescu, a pupil of Enescu, and later studied composition at the Bucharest Academy of Music (MA 1969), where his teachers included Niculescu, Olah and Stroe, some of the leading figures of the newly emerging avant garde. Upon graduation Rădulescu left Romania for the west, and settled in Paris. One of the first works to be completed there (though the concept had come to him in Romania) was Credo for nine cellos, the first work to employ his spectral techniques. This technique "comprises variable distribution of the spectral energy, synthesis of the global sound sources, micro- and macro-form as sound-process, four simultaneous layers of perception and of speed, and spectral scordaturae, i.e. rows of unequal intervals corresponding to harmonic scales." In the early 1970s he attended classes given by Cage, Ligeti, Stockhausen and Xenakis at the Darmstadt summer courses, and by Ferrari and Kagel in Cologne; later, from 1979 to 1981, he studied computer-assisted composition and psycho-acoustics at IRCAM. Rădulescu's spectral techniques, as they evolved through the 1970s and b

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albums

Radulescu: Piano Sonatas & String Quartets, Vol. 1

Intimate Rituals

Horatiu Radulescu: Plasmatic Music

Rădulescu: Works for Organ & for Cello

Radulescu: The Complete Cello Works

Hommage à Horațiu Rădulescu: Complete Works for Piano

Rădulescu: Lao Tzu Sonatas

Rădulescu: Piano Concerto, Op. 90 "The Quest" (Live)

Horațiu Rădulescu: Piano Sonatas No. 1, No. 2 and No. 4

Lao Tzu Sonatas

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Radulescu: Inner Time II

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