Strigoii

Description

Strigoii remained forgotten until the manuscript, lost like many others in the turmoil of World War I, was returned to the public domain by the director of the Enescu Museum in Bucharest. To understand how Strigoii was created, it was first necessary to decipher and then reconstruct the original score. When Enescu began Strigoii in 1916, it was the result of a long admiration for the poet Mihai Eminescu that would last until the end of the composer's life. While similarities can be found between Eminescu's poems and German Romanticism, in Strigoii Enescu also shows stylistic affinities with contemporaries such as Alexander von Zemlinsky and the young Alban Berg.