DOCUMENTS FROM THE ARCHIVES OF THE NATIONAL „GEORGE ENESCU” MUSEUM IRINA NIȚU NATIONAL „GEORGE ENESCU” MUSEUM ABSTRACT: The archives are real treasures. Sometimes they reveal forgotten things, resurrect memories, confirm, or disprove facts. A simple document thus acquires an invaluable value. The archive of the "George Enescu" National Museum consists of invaluable patrimony, made up, among other things, of documents such as musical manuscripts, photographs, posters, concert programs, telegrams, cards, letters, many of them discovered and already included in the list of cultural goods. Most of them refer, as is natural, to the life or work of George Enescu and are subject of new editorial appearances and thematic exhibitions of the museum. For this presentation, we bring to front some of the documents from the institution's archive, more precisely – pages of correspondence (telegrams, letters) addressed to George Enescu, a charcoal portrait representing the musician, as well as a concert statement. Two of the senders were personalities of the Romanian political life and the Romanian science (Eugeniu Grigore Neculcea and Constantin Motăş), and the other two – musicians: one French (Fernand Halphen) and another Romanian (Clara Haskil). The first ones wrote to Enescu on the occasion of some anniversary days, pointing out certain facts less known from his biography, and the latter referred to known events, giving us a subjective point of view on them.
KEYWORDS: NECULCEA, HASKIL, CAUDELLA, ARCHIVE GEORGE ENESCU AND EUGENIU GRIGORE NECULCEA
RESEARCHING George Enescu's correspondence in 1931, we were fascinated by a letter received by the musician on the occasion of the fulfillment of half a century. George Enescu, already established as an international personality, received congratulatory messages from outstanding representatives of the Romanian and universal culture. Among these we mention Eugeniu Grigore Neculcea (1876-1954), Doctor of physicomathematical science at the Sorbonne, Professor at the University of Iași and who worked in the Ministry of Finance, being, among others, Ambassador of Romania and diplomat, appointed, after the First World War, member of the Romanian delegation to the Peace Conference in Paris.
Fig. 1: Eugeniu Grigore Neculcea
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