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Stefan NiculescuPublished: October 7, 2001Updated: July 17, 2003 |
Short biography
Stefan Niculescu was born on July 31, 1927 in Moreni in the Dambovita region, some 60 kilometers north of Bucharest.
Education
His first studies were in Bucharest at the Royal Academy of Music (1941-1946). Afterwards he studied at the Polytechnic Institute in
Bucharest (1946-1950) and subsequently again at the Academy of Music (1951-1957). Here he studied composition with
Mihail Andricu, harmony and counterpoint with Mihail Jora, orchestration with Rogalski and piano with Muza
Germani-Ciomac. In 1966 he studied electro-acoustic music with Mauricio Kagel at the Studio Siemens in Munich.
During the summers of 1966, 1967 and 1968 het attended the Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt (studies under
Ligeti, Stockhausen, Karkoschka, Becker, Caskel, Gawriloff, Siegfried Palm and Aloys Kontarsky).
In Bucharest Niculescu worked as piano-teacher (1958-60), researcher at the Institute of Art History (1960-1963) and
lecturer in composition and analyses at the Academy of Music. Since 1993 he has been a professor at the Academy.
He has been composer-in-residence at the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst in Berlin and lecturer in Darmstadt.
On his music
| 1955 | Sonata, clarinet and piano |
| 1956 | Symphony, orchestra |
| 1957 | String Trio . Revised in 1976 |
| 1959 | Cantata I, female/children's chorus and orchestra. Text by Nina Cassian. Revised in 1974 |
| 1960 | Cantata II, tenor, mixed chorus and orchestra. Text by Gellu Naum |
| 1960 | Cantata III "Rascrucee" ("Crossing"), mezzo soprano and 5 wind instruments. Text by Tudor Arghezi |
| 1962 | Febre, music for the theatre production by Horia Lovinescu |
| 1962 | Scènes, Suite, winds, percussion and double bass. Revised in 1965 |
| 1962 | Le livre avec Apolodor, music for the theatre production by Gellu Naum |
| 1963 | Symphony for 15 soloists, 15 soloists |
| 1963 | Elefantelul curios, Theatre production by Nina Cassian. Music for children |
| 1963-65 | Inventions, clarinet and piano |
| 1964 | Wind Sextet . Version of Cantata III |
| 1965 | Calea Victoriei, Music for the film |
| 1965 | Cele trei neveste ale lui Don Cristobald, Theatre production by Valentin Silvestru (based on Federico Garcia Lorca). Music for children |
| 1965 | Doctor Faustus XX, music for the film |
| 1967 | Hétéromorphie, large orchestra |
| 1968 | Formants, 17 solo strings or 17 strings and other instruments |
| 1968 | Tastenspiel, piano |
| 1969 | Heraclit's Aphorisms, 20 solo voices |
| 1970 | Unisonos I, large orchestra |
| 1970 | Miul Cobiul, Music for the stage production |
| 1971 | Triplum I, flute, cello and piano |
| 1971-73 | Ison Ia, 14 solo instruments - 12' |
| 1971-73 | Ison Ib, large orchestra - 12' |
| 1972 | Triplum II, clarinet, cello and piano |
| 1972 | Unisonos II, orchestra - 7' (not published) |
| 1974 | Cartea cu Apolodor (Le livre avec Apolodor), children's opera, text by G.Naum. Premiere: April 13, 1975. (Not published) |
| 1975-76 | Ison II, 4 flutes, 4 trumpets, 4 horns, 4 trombones, 4 percussionist - 20' |
| 1976 | Fragments I, 12 voices, flute and 5 percussionists |
| 1975 | Symphonie No.1, orchestra |
| 1977 | Echos I, violin |
| 1977 | Fragments II, III, instrumental soloists (winds, strings ad.lib), voice and/or percussion and 12 instruments |
| 1978-80 | Symphony No.2 "Opus Dacicum", large orchestra |
| 1979 | Sincronie I, 2-12 instruments ad lib |
| 1979 | Solo from Sincronie I, one instrument ad lib. Version for percussionist playing vibraphone and marimba. |
| 1980 | Snødronning (Snowqueen), Music for the theatre production after Christian Andersen |
| 1980 | The Palm Sundays of a Horse Dealer, Music for the theatre production of a play by Sütö András, after "Michael Kohlhaas: by Heinrich von Kleist |
| 1981 | Sincronie II "Hommage à Enesco et Bartók", orchestra |
| 1982 | Fat - Frumos din lacrima, Music for a puppet-dance for 11 instruments (not published) |
| 1982 | Sincronie per cinque, Wind quintet (not published) |
| 1984 | Symphony No.3 "Cantos", saxophone and orchestra |
| 1984 | Echoes II, violin and synthesizer |
| 1984 | Ricercare in uno, clarinet, violin and synthesizer |
| 1984 | Duplum I, violin and piano or synthesizer |
| 1985 | Octuplum, flute, clarinet, saxophone, percussion, mandolin, guitar, viola and cello |
| 1985 | Sincronie III, flute, oboe and bassoon |
| 1985 | Sincronie IV, flute, oboe, violin and cello |
| 1986 | Duplum II, clarinet and piano |
| 1986 | Suite from 'Sincronie II', orchestra |
| 1986 | Hétérophonies for Montreux, flute, cor anglais, clarinet, horn and bassoon |
| 1986 | A Due, clarinet and bassoon. Not published |
| 1987 | Sincronie IV, clarinet, percussion and piano |
| 1988 | Monophonie, bassoon |
| 1989 | Invocatio, 12 voices |
| 1989 | Chant-son, saxophone |
| 1991 | Incantations I, 6 percussionists |
| 1992 | Axion, female chorus and saxophone |
| 1993 | Sextuplum, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, percussion, violin and cello |
| 1993 | Psalm XII, 6 male voices |
| 1994 | Sequentia, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello and percussion |
| 1995 | Symphonie No.4 "Deisis", 21 soloists or large orchestra |
| 1996-97 | Symphonie No.5 "Litanies", large orchestra |
| 1997-98 | Umdecimum, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, 2 violins, viola and cello or chamber orchestra |
| 2000 | Incantations II, version for solo percussion |
| 2000-02 | Prohodiri, Rumanian requiem for soloists, choir and orchestra. Not yet finished. |
Recordings
Most of these and other works were previously released on LP's on the Electrecord label, but are no longer available.
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