Irina Odăgescu-Țuțuianu (born 1937) is a

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music educator and composer.

Biography

Irina Odăgescu was born on 23 May 1937 in

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of ...

, and studied at the Bucharest Music Conservatoire with Tudor Ciortea and . She also took summer courses with

Iannis Xenakis Giannis Klearchou Xenakis (also spelled for professional purposes as Yannis or Iannis Xenakis; el, Γιάννης "Ιωάννης" Κλέαρχου Ξενάκης, ; 29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde c ...

György Ligeti György Sándor Ligeti (; ; 28 May 1923 – 12 June 2006) was a Hungarian-Austrian composer of contemporary classical music. He has been described as "one of the most important avant-garde composers in the latter half of the twentieth century ...

, and

Karlheinz Stockhausen Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th-century classical music, 20th and early 21st-century ...

. After completing her studies, she became a professor at the Bucharest Conservatoire. Odăgescu's works have been performed internationally in Europe, Asia, and the United States, and she has lectured at international conferences held at the University of Pau in France and at the

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. She has co-written the texts ''Practical Studies for Reading in Keys for Two Voices'' in 1972, and ''Practical Studies for Reading in Old Choral Keys'' in 1982.

Honors and awards

*The Romanian Union of Composers’ Prize (1978–2004) *The Romanian Academy’s George Enescu Prize (2001) *The Viotti- Valesia Prize (Italy) *The ‘Ciudad Ibague’ Silver Medal (Columbia)

Works

Odăgescu has composed symphonic, choral, ballet and chamber music. Selected works include: *''Youth Everlasting and Life Without End'' (2005) *''The Pyre of Bread'' *''Tall Song'', Ballet *''Melos'', Sonata for viola solo, Op.48 (1982)

References

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