Background
George Enescu was born in Liveni (now named George Enescu), Romania, August 19, 1881.
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Ondine is pleased to announce the first release of an Enescu cycle with the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of artistic director Hannu Lintu. George Enescu is Romania's most important composer - and one of the most neglected composers of the 20th century. This release will be the first of an Enescu cycle with Hannu Lintu.
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George Enescu was born in Liveni (now named George Enescu), Romania, August 19, 1881.
He was a child prodigy, beginning to compose at a very young age. He was admitted to the Vienna Conservatory at the age of 7, which made him the second person to be ever admitted to this university by a dispensation of age, and the first non-Austrian. He graduated at the age of 12 with a silver medal, and in 1895 entered the Paris Conservatory, where he studied until 1899.
In 1891, at the age of 10 Enescu gave a private concert at the Court of Vienna, in the presence of Emperor Franz Joseph. His first mature work Poema Română was presented in 1898, February 6, in Paris, played by the prestigious Colonne Orchestra and conducted by Édouard Colonne. On 8 January 1923 he debuted as a conductor in America, in a concert given by the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in New York City. In 1920s Enescu first persuaded to make recordings as a violinist. With many American orchestras he appeared as a conductor, and was a candidate to replace Arturo Toscanini as permament conductor of the New York Philharmonic. Starting from 1927, he teached Yehudi Menuhin. He conducted his pupil and Orchestre Symphonique de Paris in 1935 in Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, and the New York Philharmonic between 1937 and 1938. He lived in Paris and in Romania, but after World War II and the Soviet occupation of Romania, he stayed in Paris. He was also a violin teacher. He died in 1955 and was interred in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Enescu's musical compositions include the opera Oedipe (1936), five symphonies (two of them unfinished), two Romanian rhapsodies, a symphonie concertante for cello and orchestra, much chamber music, and several pieces for piano and violin.
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Enescu is described as "the greatest musical phenomenon since Mozart" and "one of the greatest geniuses of modern music" by Pablo Casals. Vincent d'Indy said that if Beethoven's works were destroyed, they could be all reconstructed from memory by George Enescu. Alfred Cortot, one of the greatest pianists of all time, once said that Enescu, though primarily a violinist, had better piano technique than his own.
Quotes from others about the person
Queen Marie of Romania, in her memoirs ". .. in George Enescu was real gold". Yehudi Menuhin: "He will remain for me the absoluteness through which I judge others", "Enescu gave me the light that has guided my entire existence. " He also considered Enescu "the most extraordinary human being, the greatest musician and the most formative influence" he had ever experienced.
In 1939 Enescu married Maria Rosetti.