Sabin Drăgoi
Sabin Vasile Drăgoi (6 June 1894 – 31 December 1968) was a Romanian composer, who specialized in folk music. His oeuvre includes orchestral and chamber works, film music and operas. He was born in a peasant family from Seliște, Arad County.
Sabin Drăgoi
- Born
- 1894. · Seliște.
- Died
- 1968. · Bucharest.
- Nationality
- Romania.
- Occupation
- composer and ethnomusicologist.
- Fields
- opera, instrumental music and chamber music.
- Education
- Prague Conservatory.
- Languages
- Romanian.
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Sabin Vasile Drăgoi (6 June 1894 – 31 December 1968) was a Romanian composer, who specialized in folk music. His oeuvre includes orchestral and chamber works, film music and operas. He was born in a peasant family from Seliște, Arad County.
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After studying at a teachers' seminary in Arad and at the music conservatory in Cluj, he went to the Prague Conservatory, where he studied composition with Vítězslav Novák. From 1924 to 1950 he was professor of composition, harmony, and counterpoint at the conservatories in Timișoara and Bucharest, and from 1940 to 1944 he was the director of the opera house in Timișoara.
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1968
Sabin Drăgoi died at Bucharest.
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Seliște.
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Bucharest.
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scholarly publication
- Drăgoi, Sabin Vasile (opera), Oxford Music Online, 2002
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2002
- The Romanian Carol between Harmony and Polyphony. A Comparative Approach to the Views of Two Composers: Sigismund Toduţă and Sabin Drăgoi, Musical Romania and the Neighbouring Cultures
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- “Sabin Drăgoi”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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