Information About ™Grigoraş Dinicu |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT GRIGORAş DINICU | |
| 1889 births | |
| dinicu, grigoras | |
| 1949 deaths | |
| romanian composers | |
| dinicu | |
| people from bucharest | |
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He was born in Bucharest . He attended the Bucharest Conservatory, where he studied with Kiriac-Georgescu; the most famous of his teachers was Carl Flesch , the violin pedagogue, with whom he studied in 1902. After graduation he played violin with the Orchestra of the Ministry of Public Instruction, and also performed as a soloist. ''Hora staccato'' dates from the beginning of this period; he wrote it as a graduation exercise. For forty years, from 1906 until 1946 , he directed popular music concerts. He also toured abroad as a soloist and conductor, and he also played a great deal of light music in nightclubs, hotels, restaurants, and cafés in Bucharest and throughout Western Europe. His music is mostly for violin and Piano , though some pieces (such as ''Hora staccato'') have later been arranged for other combinations of instruments (for example, Trumpet and piano, as well as violin and orchestra). Other works of Dinicu's, all in a light, Romanian or Gypsy style, include ''Hora spiccato'' (''spiccato'' is a bowing technique where the bow is bounced on the string, producing short crisp notes), ''Hora de concert'', ''Hora marţisorului'' (''Marţisor'', literally "little March", is a minor Romanian seasonal holiday on the March 1 ), ''Hora de la Chiţorani'' ("Hora from Chiţorani ", a town in Prahova county), ''Hora Expoziţiei de Paris'' ("Hora of the Paris Exposition "), ''Improvisation à la Dinicu'' ("Improvisation in the style of Dinicu"), ''Orientale à la tzigane'' ("''Orientale'' in Gypsy style", and ''Sîrba lui Tanţi'' ("The aunts' sîrba"; a Sîrba is another type of Romanian dance). He died in Bucharest. REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING
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