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Myriam Marbé

Myriam Marbé (9 April 1931 in Bucharest – 25 December 1997 in Bucharest) was a Romanian composer and pianist. She won a number of prizes, including the GEDOK at Mannheim in 1961, 1966 and 1970, six

Myriam Marbé (9 April 1931 in Bucharest – 25 December 1997 in Bucharest) was a Romanian composer and pianist. She won a number of prizes, including the GEDOK at Mannheim in 1961, 1966 and 1970, six first prizes from the Composers’ Union of Romania, the Bernier Prize and the Romanian Academy Prize. Life Marbe received her first piano lessons from her mother, Angela Marbe, who was a piano teacher. Her father Max Marbe was a bacteriologist. From 1953 to 1965, she was a film director at the Casa de filme in Bucharest. She taught counterpoint and composition at the Bucharest Conservatory from 1954 to 1988, where her refusal to join the Romanian Communist Party prevented her from reaching the rank of Professor. Works *Nunta Zamfirei, ballet, 1954 *Sonata for viola and piano, 1955 *In Memoriam, lyrical piece for oboe, 2 horns, piano, celesta, drum set, and string orchestra, 1959 *Chorsuite, choral suite on texts by and Paul Aristide, 1959 *Sonata (Prologo – Aria – Epilogo) for 2 violas, 1966 *Le Temps Inévitable, 1968–71 *Serenata – Eine kleine Sonnenmusik, 1974 *La parabol du grenier for an interpreter on piano, harpsichord, celesta, and optional glockenspiel and tubular bells, 1975–76 *

Era
Post-War
Lived
1931–1997
From
Romania
Born in
Bucharest · died Bucharest
Known as
composer, film director, musicologist, pianist, music critic, music educator
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.