Alexandru Mandy

Alexandru Mandy (; August 9, 1914 – October 10, 2005) was a Romanian Jewish composer. Career Mandy began his first major compositional debut with his Song of the Wind. He often wrote lyrics to preexisting instrumental music, but a majority of his songs consisted of completely original compositions. His soundtrack was sung by and . He was heavily inspired by Romanian artist Constantin Brâncuși. When he was 20, he first discovered Brâncuși’s work at a meeting of poet Elena Farago. Many of his pieces, such as the (), (), (), and found their way to be memorialized in Mandy’s songs. A lot of his work was also influenced by his pride in his homeland of Romania. In 1966, he composed Your Voice, a tribute to Maria Tănase. Additionally, he performed other pieces influenced by traditional Romanian culture such as Cânt pentru bradul meu (I sing for my tree) and Un grai, o vatră, un isvor (A voice, a hearth, a spring). His piece, Ierusalim, is a tribute to the victims of the Munich Olympic massacre victims. Mihai’s renditions of The endless column and Under a patch of sky won Mandy the prize of the . Personal life Mandy studied at the Faculty of Pharmacy in Bucharest for his tertiary education