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Aurel Stroe

Aurel Stroe (5 May 1932, in Bucharest – 3 October 2008, in Mannheim) was a Romanian composer, philosopher and linguist. In 2002 he was awarded the Herder Prize from the University of Vienna. Life and

Aurel Stroe (5 May 1932, in Bucharest – 3 October 2008, in Mannheim) was a Romanian composer, philosopher and linguist. In 2002 he was awarded the Herder Prize from the University of Vienna. Life and career From 1951 to 1956 Stroe studied piano with Maria Totino, composition with Mihail Andricu, and harmony with Marṭian Negrea at the Bucharest Conservatory. He also took summer courses at the Darmstadt Conservatory from 1966 to 1969 where he was a pupil of Mauricio Kagel, György Ligeti, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. He was awarded a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service which enabled him to pursue research at the International Comparative Musicology Institute of Alain Danielou in 1972-1973. Stroe was appointed the position of reader at the Bucharest Conservatory in 1962. From 1986 to 1993 he was a professor of composition at the Mannheim Hochschule für Musik. In 2006, he was awarded the Promaetheus Prize by the Anonimul Foundation. Musical works Including electronic music. Opera * Asta nu va primi Nobel Prize (1969) - opera în three parts (Paul Sterian) * Pacea (1973) - opera în three acts (Aristophanes) * Trilogia Cetății Închise (1973-1988) opera, libretto after Aesch

Era
Post-War
Lived
1932–2008
From
Romania
Born in
Bucharest · died Mannheim
Known as
composer, university teacher, philosopher
Instruments
piano

Contemporaries

Composers of the same nationality whose working lives overlapped — computed across all 11,984 dated composers in this library, not taken from any single article.