Coman, Nicolae

Coman, Nicolae

L’ombra del mar, Songs on poems by Miquel Martí i Pol for soprano/tenor & piano (performance score/first print)

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Preface

Nicolae Coman – L’ombra del mar

(b. Bucharest, 23 February 1936 – d. Bucharest, 27 Oktober 2016)

Lieder on poems by Miquel Martí i Pol

Nicolae Coman was born in 1936 in Bucharest. During his high-school years he began studying music privately with the renowned Romanian teachers: composer Mihail Jora and pianist Florica Musicescu. He took classes at the ”Ciprian Porumbescu” Conservatory in Bucharest with Mihail Jora and Leon Klepper (composition), Paul Constantinescu (harmony), Zeno Vancea and Miriam Marbé (counterpoint), Tudor Ciortea (form analysis), Victor Iusceanu (music theory), George Breazul (music history), Alfred Mendelsohn (orchestration), Emi

(folk music), Ovidiu Drimba and Eugenia Ionescu (piano) and Mansi Barberis (canto).

After his graduation he worked at the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company, but was not allowed to promote to an employee position due to political reasons, having to do with the clash between Coman’s family history and the socialist regime. Regardless of this he was permitted to collaborate with the national radio for many decades, for broadcasts and interviews. He worked as a researcher at the Folk Music Institute within the Romanian Academy, from 1959 – 1963. It was

Writing them down and analysing them led to his essay about the Romanian folk music in that region, . In 1963 he started teaching harmony (assisting Ion Dumitrescu’s class) and counterpoint at the Bucharest Conservatory. He held a professorship from 1992 until the end of his life, for the last 2 decades teaching composition as well.

He composed the cantata ( , 1959) for chamber orchestra, mezzosoprano, tenor, mixed choir and children choir on the lyrics by Nina Cassian. He wrote a (1959, rev. 1984). His chamber music works include over 100 pieces for piano, two piano sonatas (1956, 1970), one sonata for violin and piano (1957),

( (Monody) for cello solo (1984).

He wrote over 100 works for voice and piano on the lyrics of Mihai Eminescu, Tudor Arghezi, George Bacovia, Ion Pillat, Mariana Dumitrescu, Emil Botta, Sapho, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Emily Dickinson, Carl Sandburg, Ogdon Nash, Josef Attila, Guilaume Appolinaire, Ioanna Tsatsos, Ghiorghios Seferis, Rainer Maria Rilke, Eugenio Montale, Giuseppe Ungaretti. The songs composed on his own poems include ( ), a cycle of 7 songs for baritone and string quartet (1958). For teaching purposes, he wrote over 4000 harmonic exercises, in tonal, modal and modern fashion. Nicolae Coman was awarded with the Romanian Union of Composers and Musicologists Prize in 1969, 1977 and 2009.

As a musicologist, he published in the 60’s and 70’s essays about the harmonic language of the Romanian contemporary song (lied), as well as about the fusion between music and other arts. He edited piano collections with contemporary works written by Romanian composers. A critical se’s songs – one of the most famous folk singers of all times in Romania – was also released in that period. In the last decade of his life he wrote about teaching harmony and about the integral chromatic system in harmony.

The importance of poetry in Nicolae Coman’s life and work cannot be understated. He wrote more the 5000 poems, a small part of them being published in 2004 and other igniting the creative …

 

Full preface > HERE

Score Data

Special Edition

The Romanian Music Collection

Genre

Chamber Music

Size

225 x 320 mm

Specifics

Performance Score

Printing

First print

Pages

40

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