Background
Lazăr was born in Craiova, Romania and died in Paris, France.
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Filip Lazar
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At the Bucharest Conservatory (1907-1912) he studied piano with Emilia Saegiu, theory with Dumitru Georgescu Kiriac and with Alfonso Castaldi he studied harmony, counterpoint and composition. He studied for two years with Castaldi at the Leipzig Conservatory before touring as a pianist, playing much new music
Career
From 1928 he was in France and Switzerland. From 1925, important publishers in Paris (Durand, Salabert, Max Eschig and Heugel) and Vienna (Universal Edition) began printing the works of Lazǎr and other Romanian composers such as Mihail Jora, Marcel Mihalovici and George Enescu. 1918 - Louisiana bouteille de Panurge, ballet, libretto by André Cœuroy
1928 - Les Images de Béatrice, operation
18, opera from The Cenci by Percy Bysshe Shelley, libretto by André Cœuroy
1919 - Prelude, for orchestra
1921 - Romanian Suite in Doctorate, for orchestra
1924 - Divertissement on a simple theme, for orchestra
1925 - Suite Valaque, for small orchestra
1925 - "Gypsies", scherzo for full orchestra, played in Paris 1927, conducted by Serge Koussevitzky
1927 - Concerto Grosso, for orchestra, northern
1, op 17
1928 - Le Ring. Un round de 4 minutes, for orchestra northern
2 - a symphonic miniature inspired by a boxing match, played in Paris in 1930, conducted by George Georgescu
1931 - Musique pour Radio
1931 - Overture for small orchestra
1931 - Concerto Number. 2, for piano and orchestra, operation
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1934 - Concerto Number.
3, for piano and orchestra, operation 23
1934 - Concerto Number. 4, for percussion and 12 instruments, operation
24 - in 1935 premiered at the Triton concerts in Paris, conducted by Charles Munch, the next year played in Boston.
Chamber concerto
1931 - Concerto Grosso Number. 2, unfinished
1915 - Sonata in F for piano
1919 - Sonata in East minor for violin and piano
1924 - Suite I for piano
1925 - Suite II for piano Both suites played in Bucharest by Madame
Manya Botez. 1925 - Two Romanian folk dances for piano
1925 - Bagatelle for cello (or double bass) and piano (or orchestra)
1926 - Sonata III for piano
1927 - Bagatelle for piano
1929 - Sonata in A minor for piano, operation
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1929 - Little pieces for children, operation 16
1934 - Trio for oboe, clarinet and bassoon
1935 - Trio for violin, viola and cello
1936 - Little suite for oboe, clarinet and bassoon.
Trio for harps. Quintet for harps
1924 - "Dor de crâng", folk songs for mixed voices
1924 - "Paparudele", 6-part folk songs for mixed voices
1926 - Two folk songs, for voice and piano ( "Cuprinde: Mi-a trimis bădiţa dor".
"Dorule pribeag; Vai, mandruţo!")
1927 - Three pastorals, for voice and piano, lyrics by Saint Octavian Iosif ( "Cuprinde: Singurel ca un haiduc". "Boii stau la jug supuşi".
"Dragă codule, te las!" )
Melody on a poem by Heinrich Heine for voice and piano
Six melodies for voice and piano (or orchestra)
V. Tomescu, Filip Lazăr, Editura Muzicală, Bucureşti, 1963.
Achievements
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He ventured from a Romanian nationalistic style into serialism and neo-classicism.
Membership
In 1932, along with Mihalovici, he was among the founders of the Triton society of contemporary music in Paris (1932-1939), and a member of its active committee.
