Rodica Lucia Sutzu (15 April 1913 - 8 May 1979) was a Romanian composer and pianist who studied with

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and served as the

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piano soloist for almost 20 years. Sutzu was born in

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to Elena Jules Cazaban and Rudolf Sutzu. Her father was a publicist and a descendant of the aristocratic

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family. Her mother came from a family of artists and musicians which included the composer

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. Sutzu married Radu Diamandi Demetrescu, who served as the chief of staff for Romanian Deputy Prime Minister

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. Sutzu attended the Iasi Conservatory and the Ecole Normale in Paris. Her teachers included

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, Nadia Boulanger, Aspasia Burada,

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, George Dandelot, Petre Elinescu, Gavriil Galinescu, Blanche Basscouret de Geraldi,

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, Sofia Teodoreanu, and Ginette Waldmeyer. Sutzu was the Romanian Radio piano soloist from 1937 to 1955, accompanying artists such as Mircea Barsan,

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, and Theodor Lupu, and performing with major orchestras as a soloist. She became a piano professor at the George Enesco Music School in 1959, and lectured at the Bucharest Pedagogic Institute until 1968. She was awarded the George Enesco Composition Prize in 1933, and the Workers’ Medal in 1953. Her compositions included:

Chamber

*''Piece, opus 4'' (cello and piano) *''Prelude, opus 28'' (oboe and piano)

Piano

*''Ballad in c minor'' *''Concert Waltz'' (two pianos) *''Etude, opus 12'' *''Five Miniatures, opus 27'' *''Five Pieces'' *''Obsession, opus 1'' *''Perpetuum Mobile, opus 11'' *''Rondo, opus 13'' *''Sonata in C Major, opus 7'' *''Suite, opus 25'' *''Suite for Children'' *''Three Nocturnes, opus 10'' *''Toccata, opus 23'' *''Two Preludes, opus 5'' *''Virtelnita, opus 2''1

Theatre

*Allons y d’un pas Flaneur (play; based on text by L. Delesco) *Ghici-ghici (puppet theatre; based on text by N. Stroescu) *Tu Comprendras (play; based on text by E. Peretz)

Vocal

*Ballad (six voices, two pianos, and orchestra) *Divertisement, opus 22 (chorus) *“Five Love Songs” (based on text by Armenian troubadours) *“Gazel, opus 15” (based on text by

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) *“Imi Sint Ochii Plini de Soare” (two voices) *“Prayer, opus 20” *“Songs to verses of Eminescu and

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” *“Three Miniatures, opus 16” (text by Cazimir) *“Waltz for Voice and Piano, opus 24”

References

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