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Radu Paladi (16 January 1927- 30 May 2013) was a
Paladi was a member of the Association of Romanian Composers and Musicologists since its foundation in 1949. He performed as a pianist in song recitals and chamber music in Romania, Spain, and Germany. As a soloist in his own piano concerto, Paladi played with various Romanian orchestras, e.g., the Iași Philharmonic Orchestra on the occasion of the first performance of this work, with the Botoșani Philharmonic Orchestra, and with the Bucharest National Radio orchestra with whom he recorded his piano concerto. From 1969 to 1972, Paladi worked as a conductor and artistic director of the Philharmonic Orchestra in
* First prize at the National Composition Contest in Bucharest (1951)
* First prize and awarded the gold medal at the International Composition Contest in Moscow for the cantata "Dar de nuntă" ("Wedding Present") for mixed choir and orchestra (1957)
* Third prize at the Moscow International Contest for his string quartet no. 1 (1957)
* Medal of Work third class (1959) and Order of Merit in Culture third class in Romania (1968)
* Award of the Romanian Association of Composers and Musicologists (1974, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1993, 1996)
* 23rd-of-August Medal (1979)
* Award of the
Romania
Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...
n composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music.
Etymology and Defi ...
, pianist
A pianist ( , ) is an individual musician who plays the piano. Since most forms of Western music can make use of the piano, pianists have a wide repertoire and a wide variety of styles to choose from, among them traditional classical music, ja ...
, and conductor. His compositions include stage and film music, choral works, vocal music
Vocal music is a type of singing performed by one or more singers, either with musical instruments, instrumental accompaniment, or without instrumental accompaniment (a cappella), in which singing provides the main focus of the piece. Music which ...
and vocal-symphonic works, chamber music, symphonic music as well as concerto
A concerto (; plural ''concertos'', or ''concerti'' from the Italian plural) is, from the late Baroque era, mostly understood as an instrumental composition, written for one or more soloists accompanied by an orchestra or other ensemble. The typi ...
s.
Education
Radu Paladi studied piano with Titus Tarnavski at the Cernăuți Conservatory (at that time in Romania, now inChernivtsi
Chernivtsi ( uk, Чернівці́}, ; ro, Cernăuți, ; see also other names) is a city in the historical region of Bukovina, which is now divided along the borders of Romania and Ukraine, including this city, which is situated on the upp ...
, Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...
) from 1941 until 1943. Between 1947 and 1956 he studied piano with Florica Musicescu
Florica Musicescu (21 May 1887, Iaşi–19 March 1969, Bucharest) was a renowned Romanian pianist and musical pedagogue, daughter of the renowned composer, conductor and musicologist Gavriil Musicescu.
She taught piano music for many decade ...
, composition with Leon Klepper
Leon Klepper (24 April 1900 in Iași, Romania – 7 December 1991 in Freiburg Brsg., Germany) was a Romanian composer of classical music.
Born to a Jewish family in Iași, Klepper studied in Vienna with Joseph Marx, in Berlin with Franz Schreker ...
, harmony with Paul Constantinescu and instrumentation (orchestration) with Theodor Rogalski at the Royal Academy of Theatre and Music, later known as the Ciprian Porumbescu Conservatory
The National University of Music Bucharest ( ro, Universitatea Naţională de Muzică București, UNMB) is a university-level school of music located in Bucharest, Romania. Established as a school of music in 1863 and reorganized as an academy in ...
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 ...
.
Teaching
Paladi started his teaching career from 1954 until 1963 as an assistant and continued from 1963 until 1996 as a lecturer at theCaragiale National University of Theatre and Film
The Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film, Bucharest ( ro, Universitatea Națională de Artă Teatrală și Cinematografică "I.L. Caragiale") is a public university in Bucharest, Romania, founded in 1954. It is named in honour of pla ...
in Bucharest.
Artistic career
Paladi was a member of the Association of Romanian Composers and Musicologists since its foundation in 1949. He performed as a pianist in song recitals and chamber music in Romania, Spain, and Germany. As a soloist in his own piano concerto, Paladi played with various Romanian orchestras, e.g., the Iași Philharmonic Orchestra on the occasion of the first performance of this work, with the Botoșani Philharmonic Orchestra, and with the Bucharest National Radio orchestra with whom he recorded his piano concerto. From 1969 to 1972, Paladi worked as a conductor and artistic director of the Philharmonic Orchestra in Botoșani
Botoșani () is the capital city of Botoșani County, in the northern part of Western Moldavia, Moldavia, Romania. Today, it is best known as the birthplace of many celebrated Romanians, including Mihai Eminescu, Nicolae Iorga and Grigore Antipa. ...
. Apart from being busy conducting numerous Romanian amateur choirs and vocal ensembles, he was a frequent judge at various national contests of vocal and instrumental music as well as composition contests.
Honours and awards
* First prize at the National Composition Contest in Bucharest (1951)
* First prize and awarded the gold medal at the International Composition Contest in Moscow for the cantata "Dar de nuntă" ("Wedding Present") for mixed choir and orchestra (1957)
* Third prize at the Moscow International Contest for his string quartet no. 1 (1957)
* Medal of Work third class (1959) and Order of Merit in Culture third class in Romania (1968)
* Award of the Romanian Association of Composers and Musicologists (1974, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1993, 1996)
* 23rd-of-August Medal (1979)
* Award of the Romanian Academy
The Romanian Academy ( ro, Academia Română ) is a cultural forum founded in Bucharest, Romania, in 1866. It covers the scientific, artistic and literary domains. The academy has 181 active members who are elected for life.
According to its byl ...
(1980)
* Award Romanian Order of Knights (2000)
* Award of Excellence of the Romanian Association of Composers and Musicologists (2002)
* Grand award of the Romanian Association of Composers and Musicologists to honour the composer's life's work (2007)
Musical works
Stage music
* Pălăria Florentină (A Florentine Hat), 1957 * Sălbatecii (The Savages), 1958 * Școala Calomniei (The School of Calumny), 1961 * D-ale Carnavalului (Carnival Hustle and Bustle), 1962Film music
* Fluierașul fermecat (The Little Magic Flute), animated cartoon, directed by Pascal Rădulescu and Constantin Popescu (1957) *Ciulinii Bărăganului
''Ciulinii Bărăganului'' (''The Thistles of the Bărăgan''; french: Les Chardons du Baragan) is a 1958 Franco-Romanian film directed by Louis Daquin and Gheorghe Vitanidis, based on a novel of the same title by Panait Istrati.
The film was no ...
(The Thistles of the Bărăgan), directed by Louis Daquin
Louis Daquin (20 May 1908 – 2 October 1980) was a French film director, screenwriter and actor. He directed 14 films between 1938 and 1963. He also appeared in 11 films between 1937 and 1979.
Selected filmography
* '' The Man from Nowher ...
(1957)
* La porțile pământului (At the Gates of the Earth), directed by Geo Saizescu
Geo Saizescu (14 November 1932 – 23 September 2013) was a Romanian actor and film director.soprano
A soprano () is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hz to "high A" (A5) = 880&n ...
and piano
* 4 duets for soprano, bass-baritone
A bass-baritone is a high-lying bass or low-lying "classical" baritone voice type which shares certain qualities with the true baritone voice. The term arose in the late 19th century to describe the particular type of voice required to sing thr ...
, and piano
* 13 songs for bass-baritone and piano
Works for piano
* Suite for piano (1940) * Theme with variations (1950) * Rondo a capriccio (1954) * Prelude andfugue
In music, a fugue () is a contrapuntal compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject (a musical theme) that is introduced at the beginning in imitation (repetition at different pitches) and which recurs frequently in the c ...
(1955)
* Cadence for the piano concerto in C minor, K. 491 of W.A. Mozart (2011)
Chamber music
* String quartet no. 1 in C minor (1955) * Wind quintet (1998) * String quartet no. 2 (2013)Vocal symphonic works
* Cantata "Dar de nuntă" (Wedding Present), 1957 * Oratorio "Oratoriul Eliberării" (Oratorio of Liberation), 1959 * Cantata "Poem de slavă" (Poem of Fame), 1964Symphonic music
* Symphonic suite "Fluierașul fermecat" (The Little Magic Flute), 1954 * Symphonic suite "Sălbatecii" (The Savages), 1958 * Symphonic suite "Ciulinii Băragănului" (The Thistles of the Bărăgan), 1957Concertos
* Concerto for piano and orchestra in C major (1989) * Concerto for violin and orchestra in E minor (2002)CD Recordings
* Quartetto per archi nr. 1, Quartetto Academica, prodotto della DYNAMIC s.r.l. Genova, 1979 * 2 Colinde: "Dimineața di Crăciunu", "Colo sus la răsăritu", Corul Academic Radio, dirijor Aurel Grigoraș, UCMR-ADA 1523011 Editura Casa Radio, 2001 * 2 Colinde, Corul Academic Radio, dirijor Aurel Grigoraș, Producător: Editura Muzicală UCMR, 2005 * "De ce nu-mi vii?", Corul Academic Radio, în: Antologia Muzicii românești, Creații corale românești nr. 1, Producător: UCMR-ADA 2A 18481 * "Noapte de vară", Corul Academic Radio, dirijor Aurel Grigoraș, în: Antologia Muzicii românești, Creații corale românești nr. 2, Producător: UCMR-ADA 031.076050 * "Atât de fragedă", Corul Academic Radio, dirijor Dan Mihai Goia, în: Antologia Muzicii românești, Creații corale românești nr.9, Producător: UCMR-ADA RO9AF125012655 * 2 Colinde: "Dimineața di Crăciunu", "Colo sus la răsăritu", Corul Academic Radio în: Antologia Muzicii românești, Creații corale românești nr. 10, Producător: UCMR-ADA RO9AF105012464, 2009 * String Quartet no. 1 in C minor, Lupot String Quartet, ars sonandi, 2015 * Streichquartett Nr. 1 c-Moll, Martfeld Quartett, Coviello Classics, 2016 COV91607Works published in print
* Suita pentru pian (piano suite) Editura de Stat, București, 1951 (out of print) * Suita pentru pian (piano suite), Editura de Stat pentru literatură și artă, București, 1954 (out of print) * Suita pentru pian (piano suite), Editura Muzicală, București 1968 (out of print) * Suita pentru pian (piano suite, fragment)in: Rumänische Klavierminiaturen, Leipzig, Peters Verlag, 1976 * Rondo a capriccio, Editura Muzicală a Uniunii Compozitorilor din România, București, 1953 (out of print) * Rondo a capriccio, Editura Muzicală a Uniunii Compozitorilor din România, București, 1954 (out of print) * Cvartet de coarde nr. 1 do minor (string quartet no. 1 in C minor), Editura Muzicală, București, 1960 (out of print) * Coruri (Choruses), Editura de Stat pentru literatură și artă, București, 1956 (out of print) * Cântece și Coruri (chants and choruses), Editura Muzicală a Uniunii Compozitorilor din România, București, 1967 (out of print) * Poem de slavă pentru tenor, soliști, cor mixt și orchestră, pe versuri de Corneliu Șerban (Poem of Fame for tenor, soloists, mixed chorus and orchestra based on verses of Corneliu Șerban), Editura Muzicală a Uniunii Compozitorilor din România, București, 1968 (out of print) * Două piese pentru cor și orchestră pe versuri de Vlaicu-Bârna (two pieces for choir and orchestra based on verses of Vlaicu-Bârna), Editura Muzicală, București, 1975 * Dar de Nuntă, Cantată pentru cor mixt și orchestră pe versuri de Ion Serebreanu (Wedding Present, cantata for mixed chorus and orchestra based on verses of Ion Serebreanu), Editura Muzicală, București, 2003 * Dar de Nuntă, reducție pentru pian (Wedding Present, piano score), Editura Muzicală, București, 2003 * 8 Lieduri pentru soprană și pian (8 songs for soprano and piano), Editura Muzicală, București, 2013 * Concert pentru vioară și orchestră (concerto for violin and orchestra), Editura Muzicală, București, 2014 * Cvintet de suflători (wind quintet), Editura Muzicală, București, 2014 * Lieduri și Duete pentru voci grave, medii, înalte și pian (songs and duets for deep, middle and high voices and piano), Editura Muzicală, București, 2014 * 12 Poeme pe versuri de Mihai Eminescu (12 poems based on verses of Mihai Eminescu), Editura Muzicală, București, 2014 * Cvartet de coarde nr. 2 (string quartet no. 2), Editura Muzicală, București, 2014 * Concert pentru pian și orchestră (concerto for piano and orchestra), Editura Muzicală, București, 2015 * Cvartet de coarde nr. 1 do minor (string quartet no. 1 C minor), Editura Muzicală, București, 2017Literature
* Cosma, Viorel: ''Muzicieni români'', Lexicon, Ed. Muzicală, București 1970 * Popovici, Doru: ''Radu Paladi, Poeme corale pe versuri de Mihai Edminescu'', revista ''Muzica'' 6, nr. 3 1995 * Popovici, Doru: ''Radu Paladi, Colindele pentru cor a cappella'', revista ''Muzica'' 8, nr. 1 * Zbarcea, Veronica: ''Radu Paladi, Spiritul compozitorului'', revista ''Radio România'' nr. 259, 14 ianuarie 2002 * Codreanu, Petre: ''Radu Paladi, Concertul pentru vioară și orchestră'', programul Filarmonicii George Enescu, 15 februarie 2007 * Scurtulescu, Dan: ''Radu Paladi, din nou'', revista ''Actualitatea muzicală'' nr. 4, aprilie 2007 * Manea, Carmen: ''Concertul pentru pian de Radu Paladi'', revista ''Modele umane și repere profesionale'', Colecția AkadeMusica nr. 4, Ed. UNMB 2012 * Alexandrescu, Ozana: ''Radu Paladi, Concert pentru pian și orchestră'', programul Filarmonicii George Enescu, 8 decembrie 2016 * Dediu, Dan: ''Radu Paladi - o evocare'', revista ''Actualitatea muzicală'' nr. 6, iunie 2013 * Stäbler, Marcus: Rezension der CD des Martfeld Quartetts (2015), FonoForum, 9/2016, S. 51 * Kneipel, Eberhard: Rezension der CD des Martfeld Quartetts (2015), Das Orchester, 12/2016, S. 72References
Cosma, Viorel: Muzicieni români, Lexicon, Ed. Muzicală, 1970External links
* http://dumitrugraur.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/in-memoriam-radu-paladi/ * http://no14plusminus.ro/2013/06/09/radu-paladi-in-memoriam/ * http://www.romania-muzical.ro/stiri/stire.shtml?g=5&c=49&a=1167891 {{DEFAULTSORT:Paladi, Radu 1927 births 2013 deaths People from Storozhynets Romanian composers National University of Music Bucharest alumni Romanian pianists