THE ROMANIAN COMPOSER OF XX CENTURY: BETWEEN COMPOSITION AND MUSICOLOGY

Abstract

Through the history of music a numbers of composers have tried to theorize and explain the art of sounds. We can name here the studies of Philippe de Vitry, Jean Philippe Rameau, Leopold Mozart – from Renaissance, Baroque and Classicism – or Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz – from Romanticism.
In the twentieth century, the technical and science development had a great importance for the ways of thinking. So that, a great number of creators – writers, composers, painters etc. – had systematized the theoretical aspects of methods and techniques of elaboration of artistic work.
The composer of the twentieth century has original ideas based on artistic and scientific views. His musical pieces are the direct result of the necessity of exploration of the composition’s domain and an overview of their possibilities. Until now, the compositors’ analytical research had given us numerous compositional solutions.
This musicology is alongside with composition an alternative for composer to share his musical experience and his attitude to the arts of sounds.