Margareta Xenopol facts for kids

Romanian composer, pianist, and singer (Maria) Margareta Xenopol (January 28, 1892 – July 8, 1979) was born in Iași. She initially studied piano with Margareta Sakellary and Apasia Sion Burada, then studied with Walter Bachmann in Dresden, Germany. She studied voice with Alexandru Zirra, music theory with Paul Constantinescu, and composition with Martin Negrea in Bucharest. Romanian opera singer Elena Cernei recorded several of Xenopol's songs.

Xenopol set many works by Romanian poets to music. Between 1937 and 1952, she composed several waltzes and tangos for voice. In 1972 she began work on an operetta, which was uncompleted when she died in Bucharest in 1979.

Works

Her compositions include:

Chamber

• Elegy (cello and piano)

Piano

• Classical Etude

• Concert Etude (1947)

• Dream of Columbine Waltz

• Idyll (1912)

• Melancholy Waltz

• Prelude

• Russian Suite (1950)

• Sonatina

• Theme and Variations

Vocal

• And for Your Black Eyes

• Autumn Song

• Blue Cigarette Smoke

• (The) Days Pass, But the Love Remains

• Four Romances

• I Am Watching You

• I Love Like I Never Loved

• I Wanted to Run Away from You

• Let's Go, Sailor (men's choir)

• Nocturne

• Prayer (text by Mihai Eminescu; choir)

• Psalm 19 (choir)

• Return

• Romance of the Heart (text by Ion Minulescu)

• Romances without Music

• Three Romances

• Why Do I Dream?

• You Forget Romance