Testimonies to the Essence of Music
Testimonies to the Essence of Music
1. In the article entitled “George Enescu and Ştefan Luchian” which appeared in “România Liberă”, Bucharest, year XIII, nr 3295 of 11th of May 1955, the poet Tudor Arghezi describes the unexpected evening call that George Enescu, along with his „magical” violin, made to the paralised, poor and marginalized painter Stefan Luchian. Stefan Luchian described this meeting to him with eyes in tears, „overwhelmed with emotion".
2. Just upon his release from surgery and brought on a stretcher to George Enescu’s piano and violin concert, at Saint Spiridon Hospital of Iaşi, on the 8th of November 1916, the composer Mihail Jora confessed: „In those moments, he gave me back the desire and will to live that I had lost. He gave power to my body to fight against the illness that had invaded it beyond escape and resurrected me from the dead.” (Apud Romeo Drăghici „George Enescu, the Patriot Musician”, published in the supliment of Music Review, nr 5, Bucharest, 1955).
Testimonies to the Essence of Music
Speak about some life-experiences in which music fulfilled or changed you in a certain way.
Was G. Enescu a patriot or a philanthropist?
Between 1916-1918,during the First World War when Romania fought for regaining its former territories, George Enescu played on improvised stages. As Traian Savulescu pointed out in his article published in Scanteia Review of 18.05.1955, entitled “A huge artwork dedicated to truth,beauty and goodness”, George Enescu “democratized his violin in the use of the warcharity institutions”.
Was G. Enescu a patriot or a philanthropist?
In my opinion, throughout his life, George Enescu gave evidence of patriotism and also altruism.
During the First World War he remained in Bucharest and dedicated his work to truth, beauty and goodness. I think that he has a lot of love to the homeland, because he didn’t left the country. At the same time he tried to make the world around him full of goodness and truth. However I do not think that he had many choices in that difficult period of the world, as in any other country would have prospered more than, during a difficult war and that he tried to protect the himself here.
Although he was a great patriot, I think that he had more tendencies toward altruism, and this one proves his marriage with Maria Rosetti Tescanu after he visited her in hospital, finding out about the trouble that she into, and that he settles in Paris, once the establishment of communist dictatorship in Romania, where his life is extinguished on the night of 3 to 4 May 1955.
Apr. 29, 2009