MUSICAL PERSONALITIES FROM BANAT AND CRISANA IN THE XIX-XX CENTURIES

Abstract

The ancient musical tradition in western Romania favored, starting with the end of the 19th century, the appearance of authors of pewter music textbooks and important composers, such as Trifon Lugojan, Dimitrie Cusma, Ion Vidu and Sabin Drăgoi, who enriched the thesaurus of musical culture. to our nation. T. Lugojan was considered one of the most prolific musical personalities offered by the Orthodox Church in the first half of the twentieth century and a key exponent of church music in Banat. D. Cusma has been a well-known and acclaimed music teacher in Banat for over half a century, as a conductor, folklorist and composer. I. Vidu was the founder and president of the "Association of Romanian choirs and fanfares in Banat". A great personality of the musical life in Romania, the academician S. Drăgoi also inscribed his names in the gallery of worthy conductors of church choirs from Timișoara.T. Lugojan, D. Cusma, I. Vidu and S. Drăgoi, authors of selected compositions of church and secular music, are among the most important representatives of the sound art of Byzantine tradition in western Romania.