Paul Constantinescu

From 1928 to 1933 he studied at the Bucharest Conservatory (now known as the National University of Music Bucharest) with Castaldi, Jora, Cuclin and Brăiloiu, and then in Vienna from 1934 to 1935 with Schmidt and Marx. Returning to Bucharest, he taught from 1937 to 1941 at the Academy for Religious Music, and then from 1941 until his death was a professor of composition at the Conservatory. He received the Enescu prize in 1932, and the Romanian Academy prize in 1956. Constantinescu used folk and liturgical elements in his works, with a strong command of form and modal harmony. He did much to pave the way for the post-Enescu generation of Romanian nationalist composers.

Paul Constantinescu studied at National University of Music Bucharest. Laurențiu Profeta is recorded as having studied under Paul Constantinescu. The recorded working language is Romanian. The field of work recorded is opera, instrumental music and chamber music. Employment is recorded with National University of Music Bucharest.

• Dramatic: • O noapte furtunoasă, comic opera (1934; rev. 1950; Bucharest, May 19, 1951) • Nunta în Carpați, choreographic poem (Bucharest, May 5, 1938) • Pană Lesnea Rusalim, opera (1954–55, Cluj-Napoca, June 26, 1956). • Orchestral: • Suită românească (1930–36; rev. 1942) • Jocuri românești (1936) • Burlesca for Piano and Orch. (1937; Bucharest Radio, March 7, 1938) • Simfonietă (1937; Bucharest Radio, March 16, 1938) • Symphony No. 1 (1944; Bucharest, May 18, 1947; rev. 1955) • Variațiuni libere asupra unei melodii bizantine din sec. XIII for Cello and Orch. (1946; rev. 1951) • Concerto for Strings (1947; rev. 1955; Bucharest, Feb. 16, 1956) • Rapsodia II (1949; Bucharest, Oct. 15, 1950) • Baladă haiducească for Cello and Orch. (1950; Bucharest, Dec. 23, 1951) • Suită bucovineană (1951) • Piano Concerto (1952; Bucharest, May 16, 1953) • Juventus, overture (1952) • Rapsodie oltenească (1957) • Violin Concerto (1957; Brasov, May 21, 1958) • Înfrățire, choreographic rhapsody (Bucharest, Aug. 20, 1959) • Harp Concerto (1960; Bucharest, May 4, 1961) • Symphony No. 2, Simfonie ploieșteană (Ploiești, Sept. 29, 1961) • Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello, Piano, and Orch. (Bucharest, Dec. 28, 1963). CHAMBER and INSTRUMENTAL: • Studii ȋn stil bizantin for Violin, Viola, and Cello (1929) • Quintet (1932) • Violin Sonatina (1933) • Sonata bizantină for Solo Cello or Viola (1940) • Cîntec vechi pe 2 melodii din Anton Pann for Cello and Piano (1952) • piano pieces. VOCAL: • Isarlik for Soprano and Orch. (1936) • Ryga Crypto și Lapona Enigel for Soli, Reciter, and Orch. (1936; rev. 1951; Bucharest, June 1, 1966) • Byzantinisches Passions und Osteroratorium for Soli, Chorus, and Orch. (1943; Bucharest, March 3, 1946; rev. 1948) • Byzantinisches Weihnachtoratorium for Soli, Chorus, and Orch. (Bucharest, Dec. 21, 1947) • Ulița noastră, 7 songs for Baritone and orch. (1960) • other songs.