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| Sergiu Celibidache’s Birth Centennial |
| (2012-06-28) |
| Last updated: 2012-06-29 13:23 EET |
Sergiu Celibidache’ birth centennial has been included among the notable UNESCO events in 2012. We recall the Romanian-born musician is considered one of the great conductors of the 20th century. On June 28 Google posted a special logo to mark the great composer’s birthday centennial. Born in the town of Roman (eastern Romania) Celibidache took his first piano and composition lessons in the city of Iasi. Since 1936 he had been studying composition and the art of conducting with the Berlin Academy of Music.
In 1945, soon after completing his academic studies, Celibidache became the conductor of the famous Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, which he conducted uninterruptedly for seven years. After 1952, Celibidache was a regular guest conductor for famous European symphony orchestras like the Radio Orchestra in Stuttgart, Germany, the Paris National Orchestra in France, and the Radio Symphony Orchestra in Stockholm, Sweden.
Between 1960 and 1962, Celibidache gave master classes for young conductors at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Sienna, Italy, and later on in Fontainebleau, France and Munich, Germany. In 1979, Celibidache was appointed Munich’s general musical director and tenure-track conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra in that city. With Celibidache at the helm, the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra became one of the world’s best orchestras.
Sergiu Celibidache was a great performer of post-Romantic music, being acknowledged as the second-to-none conductor of Anton Bruckner’s symphonies, as well as the French impressionists from Claude Debussy to Maurice Ravel. Celibidache also authored an impressive Requiem, four symphonies and a Concerto for piano and orchestra. According to Celibidache, music meant a lot more than euphoria.
Sergiu Celibidache: ”Music does not correspond to a form of being, music is becoming, it is something which is born, accrues, reaches its momentum and then dies like a plant, like a feeling, just like any other human activity. Transcending the euphoric stage can lead to what we, only some of us, that is, call music.”
Celibidache’s original conducting style, mainly known for its wide range of tempos, could only be savored in the concert hall. That is why, Celibidache thought that going to a concert meant taking part in the moment “ the music was born”.
For that very reason, for 40 years there were no recordings of his concerts. Celibidache passed away in France in 1996, and it was only after his death that a host of CDs and video recordings were launched on the market; those were recordings Celibidache allowed to be made during his lifetime. For his musical lifetime achievement, Sergiu Celibidache was granted a flurry of distinctions, including that of honorary citizen of Munich, in 1972, honorary member of the Romanian Academy, granted in 1992; then in 1992, Celibidache was awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa distinction by the University of Iasi.
In 1993 Celibidache received the Maximilian Order for Science and Art in Germany.
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