Doru Popovici
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Doru Popovici (born February 17 1932) is a Romanian composer, musicologist, writer and musical concerts manager.
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[edit] Biography
DORU POPOVICI was born in Resita, Romania, a city close to the border of what was formerly Yugoslavia, now Serbia. His father was Ioan Popovici, a surgeon assassinated in 1959 in the Gherla political prison, accused of being an "Enemy of the Romanian State" due to the fact that he helped write the Hungarian Counter-Revolution. His mother, Eugenia Popa, was the daughter of an orthodox priest. He graduated from the Constantin Diaconovici Loga High School inTimisoara in 1950 and in the same year decided to pursue a musical career. He moved to Bucuresti where he was admitted to the Ciprian Porumbescu music Conservatory which he graduated in 1955 with a degree in composition. Popovici studied under Mihail Andricu, Mihail Jora, Paul Constantinescu in Harmony, Martian Negrea in Counterpoint, Theodor Rogalski in Instrumentation and Zeno Vancea in History of Music. It is to be taken into consideration that Mihail Jora was Max Reger, a student back in Leipzig and that Mihail Andricu was Gabriel Faure, a student in Paris. In 1966 he married Alina Musat, a music teacher and musicologist and author of Ottorino Respighi, (Ed. Muzicala, 1972). Starting in 1968, he made regular trips to Darmstadt, Germany and studied Modern Composition Technique with Gyorgy Ligeti, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Iannis Xenakis. He becomes a SACEM member, a French professional association collecting payments of artists rights. 1968 is also the year that he started working as a musical editor in the Romanian Radio society making music-literature-history and fine arts radio programs. He still works for the society. From 1970 to 1990 he was employed as a musical journalist by the Saptamina newspaper, conducted by the writer Eugen Barbu. Since 1990 he has been a History of Music professor at Spiru Haret University in Bucharest. He is involved in monthly managing musical concerts in Bucharest, which he enjoys for the opportunity to start and encourage young musicians. Composers Serban Nichifor,Corneliu Cezar, Paul Rogojina, the violinist Serban Lupu, the pianist Viniciu Moroianu, the sopranos Laura Tatulescu and Celia Costea, the orchestra conductor Cristian Badea, the Sorbonne teacher Costin Miereanu and the jazz expert Florian Lungu have all studied music theory and practice with Doru Popovici.
[edit] Music
His work can be divided into three stages: The Post Impressionism with works like "The Piano Sonata" (edited at Leipzig, Ed. Peters), "The Violin and Piano Sonata", "Wires Quartet" and many Lieds. The Serial Dodecaphonic, (he is the first Dodecaphonic composer in Romania) "Mariana Pineda", "Prometheus", "Homage to Palestrina", "The Pigeons of Death", and "August Night", Lieds, the "Homage to Tuculescu" quintet (edited in Paris, Ed. Salabert), "Trio" for violin, cello, piano, Symphony no. 1, 2 and the dramatic madrigal "Homage to Eminescu" (Edited in Paris, Ed. Salabert). The Post Byzantine with the "Statornicie", "The Prostitute" operas, Symphony no.1, 2, Byzantine Poem, "Byzantine Hymns", "The Wedding" ballet and "Codex Caioni".
[edit] Books
He he has written 33 books about the History of Music, novels, musicians biography studies and numerous poems using blank verse.
[edit] Awards
- 20 Romanian Composers Union awards (1953-present)
- Pro Musica award (Budapest)
- The Yugoslavian Composers Society Prize
- The Romanian Academy Prize
- The "Tristan Tzara" medal
- "Comendattore d'Italia" title (1982)
[edit] References
- Viorel Cosma: "Muzicieni Romani". Lexicon, (Ed. Muzicala, 1970),
- Alfred Hoffman: "Orizonturi muzicale", (Ed.Muzicala, 1979),
- Iosif Sava - Luminita Vartolomei: "Mic Dictionar de Muzica, Bucuresti, (Ed.stiintifica si enciclopedica, 1979),
- Dan Zamfirescu: "Via Magna", Bucuresti, (Ed. Eminescu, 1970)
