Romanian Stylistic Correspondences between George Enescu and Lucian Blaga. Aesthetic Considerations

Abstract

In this paper, I am trying to capture the extraordinary correspondences established between two of the great minds in the Romanian culture: George Enescu and Lucian Blaga in terms of worldview and life, death, destiny, and attitude. Their work is based on a common archetypal layer – the spirituality of the Romanian village, to which professional training at the highest Western level is added. The similarities between the three are not dependent on the existence of any direct contact, not even by means of creation, because there is no data to confirm any direct contact between the composer Enescu and the philosopher Blaga. The two great artists are part of a larger tradition giving inexhaustible sources of creativity, resulting in the crystallization of language, by taking over the characteristics of the Romanian folklore.