Studiul Artelor şi Culturologie: Istorie, Teorie, Practică (Dec 2019)
SERAFIM BUZILĂ'S SONATA FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO: AN EXAMPLE OF COMPONISTIC INVENTIVITY AND A TRIBUTE TO THE GREAT GEORGE ENESCU
Abstract
In his Sonata for Violin and Piano S. Buzila has taken on a rather difficult task: to combine folkloric elements with classical and contemporary elements in a sonata cycle, with its well-defined form, trying to express the psychology of the contemporary man in a genre with a history of several centuries. In this seemingly traditional cycle, the author operates with modern composition techniques mixed with various polyphonic devices and elements characteristic of folklore. The analysis of S. Buzilă's Sonata reveals common features of this cycle with the Sonata for violin and piano "in Romanian folk character" by G. Enescu. These are manifested both in the general treatment of the cycle and in the character of the musical theme, in the ways of using the means of expression. Through both of the two sonatas, the composers tell us, each one in his own way, about their native places, about the national dances admired in childhood, about the picturesque nature of their motherlands, about the gifted fiddlers they once listened to.
