Cristina Suteu

• Assistant Lecturer in Musicology
• Lecturer at Gheorghe Dima Music Academy

"This year marks a century since the birth of the musicologist and enescologist Viorel Cosma (1923-2017). The purpose of this article is to recall the impact that Viorel Cosma had in musicological research on a national and international level through the thousands of signed articles and through the approxi¬mately 100 books published on themes that...

The musical periodicals, in general, reveal remarkable connotations about the development of the musical life in a specific region and period. Some of them are published more than one century ago and thus can offer primary source material testifying the manner in which composers, performers, conductors, critics, musicologists and music lovers contr...

"Nowadays, for those working in the academic field, the list of publications has become an essential condition in justifying the research activity. “To be or not to be” published in high-ranking journals and indexed in databases is a criterion in the evaluation of any researcher. In some cases, originality is a sine qua non condition for acceptance...

The Muzica journal – the only one specialized publication from the past century – during the historical decades, it has been submitted for a while to the political influences. Together with the cultural face of the pre-war (1916) and inter-war (1919-1925) periods, the political factor had a major influence of the post-war period (1950-1989). The ac...

Dinu Lipatti (1917-1950) was a composer, performer and pedagogue of genius, gifted with the amazing temperament of a “poet of the piano”, as conductor Ernest Ansermet used to call him, and, we would add, with that of a “poet of the pen” as well. There was, however, another field in which he was particularly interested, though less known to the publ...

Founded in 1980 by Dr. H. Robert Cohen, Le Répertoire International de la Presse Musicale / Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (RIPM) provides access to periodical literature dealing with music from 1760 to 1966. While the importance of this monumental documentary resource has long been recognized, RIPM represents the first effort to undertak...

A plurivalent personality, the master and academician Cornel Țăranu (born in Cluj on June 20, 1934) is a prominent figure in contemporary Romanian and universal music. In this article I presented the professional trajectory in a chronological and logical sequence of events of Cornel Ţăranu’s life, the list of all the doctoral theses supervised, his...

The musical language of George Enescu (1881-1955) is sprinkled with symbolic valences that carry the imprint of the Romanian musical culture. For more than half of a century (57 years), Enescu wrote musical works inspired by the folkloric tradition. Between the Romanian Poem , written when he was 16 (in 1897) and the Chamber Symphony , when he was...

The present study aims to analyse the publications that preceded the Muzica Journal [The Music], with a focus on their critical evolution: Gazeta Teatrului Național [National Theatre Journal, 1835-1836], Musicul român [Romanian Music, 1861], Eco musicale di Romania [1869-1871], Lyra română [Romanian Lyra, 1879-1880], Arta [The Art, 1883-1885, 1894-...

REZUMAT Critica muzicală însumează un proces: de la decizia de a scrie despre o interpretare muzicală până la ideile materializate într-un context publicistic. Din întreg traseul pregătirii materialului pentru a fi supus atenției publicului, prezentul articol se concentrează pe doi factori interdependenți: utilizarea terminologiei și cadrul mediati...