Andrei Tudor

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Andrei Tudor
File:Andrei Tudor.jpg
Born Isaac Rozenzweig
August 31, 1907
Brăila, Romania
Died June 18, 1959
Bucharest, Romania
Resting place Crematoriul Cenușa, Bucharest
Pen name I. Alexis Edgar,[1] Andrei Tudor,[1][2] Lafcadio
Occupation poet, translator, journalist, musicologist
Language Romanian
Citizenship Romania
Education Juris Doctor
Alma mater University of Bucharest Law School
Period 1928 - 1959
Subject <templatestyles src="Cslist/styles.css" />
  • poetry
  • cultural journalism
  • musicology
Literary movement avant-garde Symbolism[3]
Criterion
Spouse Melania Tudor, 1938 - 1959
Children Manuela Lena, Alexandru Laurențiu

Andrei Tudor (Romanian pronunciation: [anˈdrei tuˈdor]; (born Isaac Rozenzweig; August 31, 1907, Brăila - June 18, 1959, Bucharest) was a Romanian poet, translator and musicologist.[1][2]

Life

Tudor was born to a Jewish family in Brăila, the son of Mayer and Tony Rozenzweig. After graduating from the Nicolae Bălcescu National College in 1926, he attended law school at University of Bucharest.[1][2][4][5]
He was licensed to practice in 1930, though ultimately never pursued a career in law. Instead, Tudor decided to pursue a literary and journalistic career in the capital; allowing himself a more intellectually conducive environment in which he could write about his true interests.
In 1940, Romania legislated its equivalent of the Nuremberg Laws, at approximately the same time when Tudor’s career began to gain traction. Much like other prominent Jewish writers of the time, his name was suppressed from media.
While in Prague in 1959, he fell ill. He ultimately sought treatment in Bucharest, but shortly thereafter succumbed to his illness as a result of medical negligence while hospitalized.

Career

Tudor debuted his literary career in 1927 with a translation of French poet Francis Jammes. [6][Note 1] His first the poem, Trupește, [7] was printed in 1928. Tudor's poetry and prose appeared in avant-garde publications.[1][4][8][Note 2] Several newspapers and periodicals regularly printed his musical, theatre and cinema reviews.[1][8][Note 3] In 1935 his first and only poetry volume, Love 1926,[9] was awarded the poetry prize by Fundaţia Pentru Literaturǎ şi Artǎ "Regele Carol II".[Note 4] It was published in 1937. Along with other members [Note 5] of the Criterion group, Tudor was closely associated [2] with, the now defunct, Pro-Arte music conservatory.[10] After the war he translated Social realist poets from the USSR, Czechoslovakia and Korea.[1][Note 6] but his interests increasingly turned to music. He held lectures to popularize classical music before live audiences and on the radio. Tudor, an early Enescu scholar, curated [1] the newly (1956) established museum [2] dedicated to the composer. In May 1955 he wrote a proposal for an international Enescu festival [3]. The first edition of the festival took place in 1958. Tudor worked at several cultural institutions:

  • 1951 - 1952 editor-in-chief at Revista Muzica [The Music Journal] (official publication of the Union of Composers and Musicologists from Romania) [1][2] [4]
  • 1950 - 1959 professor at the Bucharest Conservatory [1][2] [5]
  • 1951 - 1959 director - Music History department, Art History Institute, Romanian Academy [1][2] [6] [7]
  • 1951 - 1956 professor at the Institute for Theatre I. L. Caragiale Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film[1][2]
  • 1955 - 1959 Editorial Committee member [1][2] [8] Studii și Cercetări de Istoria Artei [Art history: Studies and Research] (official publication of the Romanian Academy, Art History Institute)

Selected works

Poetry

  • (1937) Love 1926: poems [9] [9]

Translations

  • (1951) Korean poetry selections [13]
  • (1952) The book of blood : the heroic resistance of the Greek people [14]
  • (1955) Vítězslav Nezval A song of peace [15]

Prose

  • (1947) Moscow : A report about the metropolis of the new world [16]

Translations

Musicology

Books

  • (1951) Sovietic music in full swing Pref. [18]
  • (1957) Enescu [19] [Note 7]
  • (1959) George Enescu: His Life in Pictures [20]

Essays

  • (1945) A note on tradition in soviet music [21]
  • (1947) Three decades of soviet music [22]
  • (1956) Enescu's work and the problems of folk themes use in musical creation [23]
  • (1955) Eduard Caudella and the Romanian lyrical theatre [24]
  • (1959) New creative aspects of contemporary Romanian symphonic music [25]

Articles

[Note 8]

  • (1946) Music Chronicle [26]
  • (1946) The Society of Rumanian Composers [27]
  • (1946) The Forthcoming Musical Season [28]
  • (1947) Rumanian Musicians and the Exchange of Culture [29]
  • (1947) Opening of the Season [30]
  • (1947) Rumanian Artistic Relations With Foreign Countries [31]
  • (1955) Rumanian Music Forges Ahead [32]


Notes

  1. ↑ Mihail Sebastian collaborated on the translation of Francis Jammes's "Prayer for a child that he may not die". They were classmates throughout their school years; "Abraham and David Schwarzman" grammar school, Nicolae Bălcescu National College and University of Bucharest Law School.
  2. ↑ „Convorbiri Literare", „Revista Fundațiilor Regale", Universul Literar, „Bilete de papagal" (editor-in-chief Tudor Arghezi), „Tiparniţa literară", „Contimporanul" (under the pseudonym Lafcadio), „Excelsior" (under the pseudonym Lafcadio), „Viața de azi", „Viaţa literară", „Revista Muzicală și poezie", „Azi" (editor-in-chief Zaharia Stancu), „Herald", „Pinguin", „Clopotul", „Contemporanul", „România liberă". After 1944 he writes for „Veac nou", an ARLUS publication.
  3. ↑ „Rampa", „Cuvântul", „Facla", „Zorile" (cultural section editor), „Săptămâna literară, plastică, teatrală", „Vremea", „Meridian", „Adam", „Litere", „Premergătorul", „Stilet", „Curierul" (Brăila), „Start", „Omul liber", etc. After 1944 he writes for „Victoria", „Unirea", „Tribuna poporului", „Viaţa capitalei".
  4. ↑ The King Carol II Foundation for Art and Literature was an institution founded by King Ferdinand I on August 12, 1921 and was named after the future sovereign Carol II. Founded on the patronage of Prince Carol II, the Foundation developed a prodigious cultural activity during 1921-1940, after which, due to political events, it declined.
  5. ↑ Mihail Sebastian, Petru Comarnescu, Mircea Eliade, Eugen Ionescu, etc. were fellow contributors to Revista Fundațiilor Regale", „Excelsior" (under the pseudonym Lafcadio), „Azi" (editor-in-chief Zaharia Stancu), „Rampa", etc.
  6. ↑ Tudor translated Francis Jammes, Albert Samain, Stefan George and Rainer Maria Rilke before the 2nd World War.
  7. ↑ This is the first Enescu monograph by a Romanian author. In 1955 Bernard Gavoty published the Enescu interviews recorded in 1951 for Radio France. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. I. Yampolsky published a pamphlet about Enesco in the USSR in 1956.
  8. ↑ The Rumanian Review, a monthly literary magazine published in Bucharest in several languages, targeted the surviving intelligentsia within the country and an interested intellectual readership beyond its borders. Articles analysed reflect the Party's requirement that the journal should demonstrate Romania's loyalty to the emerging socialist system, and publicise that, in reorganising the country's cultural life, the Party had not necessarily abandoned Romania's cultural traditions. The study investigates how music was utilised as a tool of governance, how authors shaped their discussion in relation to the prevailing, and sometimes shifting, ideology, and what can be inferred about the supported and marginalized composers in this period. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

Citations

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 Academia Română 2007, p. 787–788
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