”I HAVE RAMAINED A ROMANIAN MAN IN PARIS...” (MARCEL MIHALOVICI: OPENING TOWARDS UNIVERSALITY)

Abstract

The work of Marcel Mihalovici, one of the most renowned Romanian composers settled in Paris, elucidates the evolutional paradigm of the Romanian Composition School in the first half of the 20th century, marked by the tendency towards getting close to the European universal musical phenomenon by assimilating stylistic influences of Romanticism, especially, of the Enescu Romanticism. Appreciated by his famous contemporaries, such as M.Ravel, V.d’Indy, F. Poulenc etc., honored with a lot of awards and international distincions, elected Corresponding Member of Institut de France andAcadémie des BeauxArts of Paris, Marcel Mihalovici created a musical style of universal nature, which denotes a miraculous stylistic symbiosis between the reflections of Romanticism, some influences of Romanian folklore, as well as certain implications of contemporary techniques, sporadic musical language drifting towards serialism.

Keywords

• romanian folk music
• romantic influences
• enescu romanticism
• programmatism
• universality
• serialism