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Romanian musicologist (1929–2022) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Bălan (11 March 1929 – 3 January 2022) was a Romanian musicologist, philosopher and aphorist.
George Bălan | |
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Born | 11 March 1929 |
Died | 3 January 2022 92) Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany | (aged
Occupation | musicologist |
Born in Turnu Măgurele, Bălan graduated at the Ciprian Porumbescu Conservatory and got his doctorate in musical aesthetics at the Lomonosov University.[1][2] In 1951 he became musical editor at the Contemporanul magazine in Bucharest; a role he maintained through 1957 and later returned to from 1961 through 1963.[1]
From 1955 through 1975 Bălan taught on the faculty of the National University of Music Bucharest. He was then professor in his alma mater and at the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu from 1975 through 1977.[1][2] In 1977 he moved to Munich in Bavaria, West Germany, where he converted to Catholicism and publicly attacked on various occasions the Romanian communist ruling.[3]
Bălan is best known as the developer of musicosophia, a musical aesthetic theory and method based on creative music listening. In 1979 he founded a Musicosophia International School in Southern Bavaria.[1][2] He died from COVID-19 on 3 January 2022, at the age of 92.[2]
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