Virgil Gheorghiu (avant-garde poet), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Virgil Gheorghiu (avant-garde poet)

Romanian poet and pianist (1903-1977)

Date of Birth: 22-Mar-1903

Place of Birth: NeamČ› County, Romania

Date of Death: 07-Mar-1977

Profession: composer, poet, pianist, music critic, musicologist

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Virgil Gheorghiu (avant-garde poet)

  • Virgil Romulus Gheorghiu (March 22, 1908–March 7, 1977) was a Romanian poet and musician. Born in Roman, his father Miltiade Gheorghiu was a career army officer, while his mother was a primary-school teacher.
  • He attended high school in his native town and in Bucharest, also studying piano with Emilia Saegiu (1923-1925) and taking courses from 1925 to 1926 at the Bucharest Conservatory, where his professors included Dumitru Georgescu Kiriac and Alfonso Castaldi.
  • From 1926 to 1926, he lived in Ia?i, where he participated in the local avant-garde movement.
  • This period followed an inconclusive literary debut with the 1925 book Cântarile rasaritului, prefaced by Demostene Botez.
  • In 1928, together with A.
  • Zaremba, he edited the surrealist magazines Prospect and XX, literatura contemporana.
  • From 1928 to 1930, he studied music in Vienna under Hugo Reinhold and Friedrich WĂĽhrer.
  • From 1930 to 1932, thanks to a scholarship obtained through Ion Minulescu, then director general at the Culture and Arts Ministry, he studied at the Schola Cantorum de Paris under Paul Braud.
  • While in Romania during this time, he attended Eugen Lovinescu's literary circle.
  • In 1933, he received a citation for his performance at an international piano competition held in Vienna.
  • From 1932 to 1939, he was a pianist in the Boni? trio.
  • In 1940, he entered the sanatorium in Moroeni in order not to be drafted into the army; he was removed by George Enescu in 1943.He undertook a sustained activity as musicologist and popularizer (Din muzica ?i via?a compozitorilor, 1942, prefaced by Ionel Teodoreanu; Un muzician genial: George Enescu, 1944; Ini?iere muzicala, 1946).
  • A pianist with the Bucharest Philharmonic from 1948 to 1967, he participated in many foreign tours from 1955 onward.
  • Throughout his life, Gheorghiu offered commentary and news about music in various newspapers and magazines (Credin?a, Lumea româneasca, România, Azi, Cuvântul liber, Muzica, Muzica ?i poezie, Contemporanul).
  • He composed choral symphonies for soloists, choir and orchestra, symphonies and chamber music.
  • At the height of the avant-garde and modernist movements, he published in unu (from which he was later dismissed for publishing elsewhere), Zodiac, Bilete de Papagal, România Literara, Cuvântul liber, Adevarul and Discobolul.
  • Febre, which he self-published in 1933, marked a sort of new debut.
  • Marea vânatoare (1935) earned him the Royal Foundation for Literature and Art Prize, as well as the Romanian Writers' Society Socec Prize.
  • Cântece de faun (1940) won the Romanian Writers' Society prize for poetry in 1942.
  • He also published Tarâmul celalalt (1938) and Padure adormita (1941), followed by a long absence from poetry.He returned in 1966 with the insignificant Poeme, while the comprehensive 1968 anthology Poezii brought him back into the limelight.
  • During his last decade, Gheorghiu published five more books of poetry: Curent continuu (1968), ?inuta de seara (1970), Trezirea faunului (1973), Sonete (1975) and Cântece finale de faun (1977).
  • Cartea rondelurilor, which he had prepared for publication in 1977, appeared posthumously as part of an ample collection of his works, the 1986 Poezii.
  • 1928-1977.
  • He also wrote fantasy prose, partially collected in Acul de cravata (1966).
  • He announced a novel, Taraful de noapte, and a musicological text, Trei romantici (Chopin, Schumann, Liszt), but these never appeared.
  • Gheorghiu, who suffered from heart disease, died of shock brought on by the 1977 Vrancea earthquake, leaving behind unpublished manuscripts.
  • Dual in nature, equally inclined toward avant-garde iconoclasm and formal rigor, Gheorghiu was an original creator of sylvan poems, refined and bucolic in inspiration.

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