Gheorghe Dima and Titu Maiorescu. Spiritual Interference

Abstract

The following lines focus on two personalities: Gheorghe Dima, a symbol of Romanian music, representative of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, and Titu Maiorescu, a politician, critic, and literary theoretician, an important personality of Romanian spiritual life. The research mainly relies on correspondence, as a means to become acquainted with the mentality of the time, the exchange of ideas, beliefs, and interests. Thus, less discussed moments of their spiritual interferences during a period of historical turmoil are retraced, based on the new documents discovered in the archives. The article focuses on the cultural and musical life in Transylvania. Gheorghe Dima's and Titu Maiorescu's efforts to promote Romanian music and the activity of the Romanian Music Reunion in Sibiu and Braşov are stressed.