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<\/p>\nBy Herv\u00e9 Roten,<\/p>\n
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Romanian composer, but also virtuoso violonist, conductor, pianist and teacher, George Enescu was born on August 19th, 1881 in Liveni (Rumanian Moldova).<\/p>\n
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A child prodigy, he enrolls in Vienna\u2019s music school at the age of 7. He studied composition and violin, and performed regularly in public since the age of 12. In 1895, he settled down in Paris to take music courses at the Paris music school : composition with Jules Massenet and Gabriel Faur\u00e9, counterpoint with Andr\u00e9 G\u00e9dalge, violin with Martin-Pierre Marsick.<\/p>\n
In Paris, he became friends with Alfred Cortot, Pablo Casals, Jacques Thibaud, Maurice Ravel, Jean Roger-Ducasse, Florent Schmitt, Paul Dukas and Fernand Halphen. In 1898, Enescu dedicated to Halphen his Nocturne Ville d\u2019Avrayen<\/em> for piano and string trio. Two years later, Halphen dedicated to Enescu his Sonata in ut # minor<\/em> for violin and piano, a sonata which was probably performed by Enescu himself for its creation.<\/p>\n During the First World War, Enescu came back to Romania, where he wrote his Second suite for orchestra<\/em> (1915) and his Second symphonia<\/em> (1918), a Trio<\/em> for violin, cello and piano and seven Pi\u00e8ces impromptues<\/em> for piano. At the end of the war, he spent time between France and the United States where he regularly conducted the New-York Philharmonic orchestra. He also perfomed many recitals and concerts in France, where he was accompanied by Gabriel Faur\u00e9 and Richard Strauss. From 1928 on, he started teaching violin and interpretation in Paris, Siena, New-York and Cambridge. Among his pupils, we find Yehudi Menuhin, Christian Ferras, Dino Lipatti, Ivry Gitlis, Arthur Grumiaux, Michel Schwalb\u00e9\u2026 The circumstances around the composition of the \u201cNocturne Ville d\u2019Avrayen\u201d<\/strong> The comparaison of the two Enescu’s manuscripts (see above), allows to resituate the creation of the Nocturne Ville d\u2019Avrayen<\/em> in its original time and context. These are youth works (Enescu was not yet 17 years old !) inspired by nature. On the score, indicated to have been finished Thursday July 7, 1898 at 3h20 AM, feature indication such as \u00ab nice moonlight \u00bb, \u00ab rooster crow \u00bb, \u00ab midnight \u00bb. The same nature inspired to Enescu one year later an Aubade<\/em> for violin, viola and cello (1899) and later a S\u00e9r\u00e9nade lointaine<\/em> for piano, violin and cello (1903).<\/p>\n Watch a\u00a0 video of the EIJM’s gala concert 2015 with a performance of the Nocturne Ville d\u2019Avrayen following Fernand Halphen’s manuscript<\/a> By Herv\u00e9 Roten,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1045,"featured_media":26559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[963],"tags":[3840],"technique":[],"squelettes":[],"sujet":[],"formation":[],"genre":[],"fonds":[],"tradition":[],"type-de-contenu":[],"interprete-compositeur":[],"frise":[],"type-devenement":[],"tableaux-liens-externes":[],"class_list":["post-59495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-highlights-en","tag-georges-enescu"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
The second world war saw the return of Enescu in Bucarest. He blended in the musical life of the romanian capital city. Strong defender of contemporary music, he composed very modern works : the Child\u2019s impressions<\/em> for violin and piano (1940), a Quintet<\/em> for piano and strings (1940) and his second Quartet<\/em> for piano (1944). When peace returned, Enescu performed as a conductor or violonist In Moscow with David O\u00efstrakh and Emil Gilels, in Bucarest with Yehudi Menuhin or on the piano with Ernst Wallfisch. The establishment of the communist regime led him to leave definitely. Refugee in Paris, and though he was sublect to financial and health issues, he stayed very active until his death during the night of 3rd and 4th May 1955.<\/p>\n![\"capture_signature_enesco_redim.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.iemj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/capture_signature_enesco_redim.jpg\")
The 5th of July 1898, George Enescu, who was not yet 17 years old, was invited by Fernand Halphen in Ville d\u2019Avray, in his parents\u2019 house. Ironically for Israelites, the house of Georges and Alice Halphen was called \u00ab The monastery \u00bb ! Enescu, classmate of Halphen in the music school, spent a very agreable time and the two friends even continued this day until late at night. The moon was bright and gave inspiration to Enescu, who would compose a Nocturne Ville d\u2019Avrayen<\/em> for piano, violin, viola and cello, which he would dedicate to Fernand Halphen, and to whom he would give the manuscript.
In 2005, Fernand Halphen\u2019s descendants donated the composer\u2019s musical archives to
the French Center for Jewish Music, today\u2019s European Institute of Jewish Music. Among the many documents, we find this manuscript that fell in oblivion. Some research on internet mention a draft of the musical score. Others mention that this score dates between 1931 and 1936, under the slightly different name Nocturne Ville d\u2019Avray<\/em>. In 2012 a CD is released dedicated to the original works of George Enescu (Georges Enescu, The Unknown Enescu<\/em>, Volume One, Music for violin) in which features the Nocturne Ville d\u2019Avrayen<\/em>. This \u201cnocturne\u201d, found in a manuscripts kept at the Romanian Cultural Institute \u2013 George Enescu Museum, is described as \u00ab a touching memory of the strong relationship between Enescu and Menuhin \u00bb between 1931 and 1936 ! According to Malcolm MacDonald, author of the disc\u2019s booklet, it is during that period that Enescu wrote this \u201cnocturne\u201d that would have been perfomed in Menuhin\u2019s house, which was in Ville d\u2019Avray. The reality is that Enescu only took back this youth composition, which he gives to be performed, particularly by Menuhin on the violin, Pierre Monteux on the viola and Maurice Eisenberg on the cello. The story erased the name of the first dedicatee \u2013 Fernand Halphen \u2013 leaving only the name of Yehudi Menuhin. We find again this error on many websites, including the French National Library.<\/p>\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.iemj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/p_nocturne_-ville_d_avrayen_001_version_roumaine_inserer1ok_300px_larg.jpg\")
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Listen to excerpts from the CD Viniciu Moroianu plays Georges Enesco – Works for and chamber music<\/a>
See an excerpt of the sheet music reissued by Salabert<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"