GEORGE ENESCU AND THE MUSIC OF THE 20TH CENTURY —
the Musicology Symposium of the George Enescu International Festival, September 18-19, 2025, Bucharest

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Program:
Thursday, September 18

Venue: National University of Music Bucharest, Auditorium Hall
Address: 33 Știrbei Vodă Street, Sector 1, 010102, Bucharest

09:50-10:00 Welcome
Nicolae GHEORGHIȚĂ, National University of Music Bucharest/ Union of Composers and Musicologists of Romania

10:00-11:30 Session I
Moderator: Olguța LUPU, National University of Music Bucharest

Corneliu Dan GEORGESCU, Composer & Musicologist, Germany
Enescu, Bartók, Stravinsky, Szymanowski, Martinů – per comparationem.
On the Idea of a Pan-European Synthesis

Mihu ILIESCU, University of Montpellier/University of Lille/University of Besançon
Two South-East European Composers: Enescu and Xenakis

Vasile VASILE, University of Pitești
The Rise of George Enescu in the Vision of the Representatives of Romanian Culture at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries

11:30-12:00 Coffee break

12:00-13:30 Session II
Moderator: Kevin BARTIG, Michigan State University

Olguța LUPU, National University of Music Bucharest
An Exercise in Admiration. Homage to Enescu by Theodor Grigoriu

Constantin-Tufan STAN, University of Oradea
Aspects of George Enescu in the Banat Cultural Topos

Irina NIȚU, “George Enescu” National Museum
Enescu’s Vox Maris. Temporal Repositionings

13:30-15:00 Lunch break

15:00-16:00 Session III
Moderator: Vlad VĂIDEAN, National University of Music Bucharest

Petruța MĂNIUȚ-COROIU, “Transilvania” University of Brașov
Cadential Compositional Strategies in Enescu’s Music: Symphonie concertante op. 8 and Chamber Symphony op. 33

Mihai COSMA, National University of Music Bucharest
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Friday, September 19

Venue: National University of Music Bucharest, Auditorium Hall
Address: 33 Știrbei Vodă Street, Sector 1, 010102, Bucharest

10:00-12:00 Session IV
Moderator: Erik LEVI, Royal Holloway, University of London/Institute of Austrian and German Music Research/University of Surrey

Iulia MOGOȘAN, Gheorghe Dima National Music Academy, Cluj-Napoca
„…to be at the service of my country and my King”. Disclosures about George Enescu and the November 1946 elections

James SAVAGE-HANFORD, Royal Holloway, University of London/ University of Oxford
Enescu’s Quiet Radicalism

Kevin BARTIG, Michigan State University
George Enescu in the USSR: Music, Diplomacy, and Cultural Memory

Vlad GHINEA, National University of Music Bucharest
The First Romanian Translation of George Enescu’s Memoirs. The Difficult Road of a Politically Censored Volume

12:00-12:30 Coffee break

12:30-14:00 Session V
Moderator: James SAVAGE-HANFORD, Royal Holloway, University of London/University of Oxford

Erik LEVI, Royal Holloway, University of London/Institute of Austrian and German Music Research/University of Surrey
The politics of expediency: George Enescu and the Third Reich

Camelia-Anca SÂRBU, “George Enescu” National Museum
Remarkable collaborations in Enescu’s concerts in the U.S.A. and Canada

Vlad VĂIDEAN, National University of Music Bucharest
George Enescu as an “institution” for the international promotion of the Romanian school of composition in the interwar period

14:00-14:30 Conclusions and final remarks
Discussing future joint projects
Expertise and ideas of the participants are most valued

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