Wilhelm Georg Berger – Sketching a Portrait

Abstract

The aim of this article is to reveal the great personality of Wilhelm Georg Berger (1929-1993), attempting to create a short portrait of him through describing and discussing his huge activity unfolded on multiple plans: as a composer (author of 24 symphonies and 21 quartets, concerts, masses, and chamber music works), as a theorist (he invented a complex modal theory, based on the golden section and on Fibonacci sequence), as a musicologist and esthetician (he published many volumes about symphonic and instrumental music focusing on the baroque, classic, romantic and modern eras, including Romanian music), violist, conductor, and guide for young musicians.