Margareta Xenopol


Romanian composer, pianist, and singer Margareta Xenopol was born on January 28, 1892 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 on July 8, 1979.

Works

Her compositions include:

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