The longing Paradigm in Enescu’s Work

Abstract

Longing, this untranslatable word, so Romanian in essence, was interpreted into many cult compositions of our creators; but the one who succeeded in valuing its sublime meanings, in an Orphic sound context with multiple resonances, was George Enescu, which permanently returned home to feed his imagination, merging organically with the ethos and the spirituality of the generating stylistic matrix, his thought being an expression of the longing. Enescu’s longing is shaped through the modal melos with rich coloring, in which even the microtonal music reveals something sweet, delicate, something connected to the confessional tone, by using melancholy rhythms or dance paces, which have something special.