Music and Poetry with George Enescu

The paper reveals the productive interconnection of poetry and music. Romanian literature abounds in a great variety of poetry dedicated to music, to composers like Liszt, Enescu, Chopin. The connection between music and poetry is exemplified by Proust’s famous Vinteuil’s sonata, which was inspired by the music of Enescu. Another example of the kind is the poetry of a french poetess, Louis Bastien, who dedicated many verses to Enescu. Some of which – Anniversaire and Le Salon – are quoted at the and of the paper, along with an article from 1912 that appeared in the Tribuna journal which displays a letter of Enescu addressed to personalities of the philharmonic society from Arad.

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