Composer and Professor Dan Buciu ceased life
The composer and theorist Dan Buciu, one of the most important members of the Union of Composers and Musicologists in Romania (UCMR), has ceased life.
According to a statement of the UCMR transmitted on Sunday Agerpres, born in 1943, in Bucharest, Dan Buciu graduated from the Capital in 1968. He participated in the International Ferienkurse from Darmstadt (1970, 1982), where he attended Ligeti’s courses, Stockhausen, Maderna, Kontarsky. In 1992 he obtained his doctorate in musicology. In 2009 he received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of the Faculty of Arts of the ‘Ovidius’ University of Constanța.
He was a professor of harmony, musical forms and analyzes and a doctoral worksheet at the National University of Music in Bucharest and rector of it between 2000 and 2008. He held conferences in the US, at the universities in New York and Urban-Champaign, Illinois, 1994, and summer courses in France in Antun, 1996.
He was distinguished several times with prizes of the Union of Composers and Musicologists in Romania, from which, in 2021, he received the Grand Prize for the entire activity. He was rewarded with the Marin Constantin award at the ‘Marin Constantin 100’ anniversary Gala, held on February 27. He was a coordinator of the Vocal Music Section of the UCMR and artistic director of the International Week of New Music, between 2013 and 2015.
According to UCMR, its creation, of neoclassical invoice, is characterized by a modal language, sometimes of folkloric inspiration, sometimes of its own construction. His symphonic works include ‘Lespezi’, ‘Scenes’ for the orchestra,’ Romanian Suite ‘,’ Antinomii ‘,’ Cristiane ‘, Singing’ The Grass of the Earth ‘, Liedur’ Lyrica ‘cycle’, Cycle ‘Wise and Poetry’, Chamber pieces’ uneasy ‘,’ Sketches for a self -portrait ‘. The choral creation includes, among other things, the works ‘Remember Hiroshima’ for the choir and magnetic tape, ‘Ana MANOLE’ for the choir and folk instruments with scenic movement, sonnet for flute, organ and mixed choir on rilke lyrics, games for the planet for children’s choir.
He has developed volumes of tonal and modal harmony, of analysis, wrote articles and chronicles, evocations and many other texts with educational-musical profile.
The achievements of the composer and professor Dan Buciu, his active involvement in the Romanian musical life, the knowledge he left to his students and doctoral students, the significant contribution he had to boost and develop the Romanian choral music are worth that they have known, directly or indirectly, quoted.
