George Bălan Explained

George Bălan
Birth Place:Turnu Măgurele, Teleorman, Romania
Death Place:Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Occupation:musicologist

George Bălan (11 March 1929 – 3 January 2022) was a Romanian musicologist, philosopher and aphorist.

Life and career

Born in Turnu Măgurele, Bălan graduated at the Ciprian Porumbescu Conservatory and got his doctorate in musical aesthetics at the Lomonosov University.[1] [2] He was professor in his alma mater and at the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu.[1] [2] In 1977 he moved to Munich in Bavaria, West Germany, where he converted to Catholicism and publicly attacked on various occasions the Romanian communist ruling.[3]

Bălan is best known as the developer of musicosophia, a musical aesthetic theory and method based on creative music listening. In 1979 he founded a Musicosophia International School in Southern Bavaria.[1] [2] He died from COVID-19 on 3 January 2022, at the age of 92.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Cosma, Viorel; Popa, Florinela (2001). "Bălan, George". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Oxford University Press.
  2. News: Cotuna . Adrian . S-a stins George Bălan, unul dintre cei mai apreciați muzicologi ai lumii . 23 January 2022 . Glasul Aradului . 8 January 2022 . ro.
  3. News: A murit George Bălan (1929-2022) . 23 January 2022 . . 1091 . 5 January 2022 . ro.