Michael Radulescu
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Organist/Conductor/Composer Michael Radulescu Profile

William Hoffman wrote (February 23, 2019):
Discussion Leader's Note: The following is a brief profile of organist/conductor/composer Michael Radulescu, submitted to Aryeh Oron, BCW moderator: biography (http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Radulescu-Michael.htm); discographies, organ works complete (http://www.bach-cantatas.com/NVP/Radulescu-M.htm), cantatas and other vocal works (http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Performers/Radulescu.htm); Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/pg/michael.radulescu/about/; catalogue of works, http://www.radulescu.at/en/catalogue-of-works/).

Michael Radulescu wrote (February 17, 2019):
<<I have been very busy the last few weeks preparing my “Adieu” concerts to my thirty-years anniversary of the Organ-works/Cantatas & all Motets Academies in Porrentruy/CH with and around the fabulous Ahrend-Organ built in 1985 at the former Jesuits-Church.

A couple of years ago I could finish the complete recording of Bach’s organ works. We are very lucky to have been able to use the great organ for the continuo-parts of the choral-instrumental works of the “Great Master J.-S.-Bach” and not the tiny squeaking positives.

As a matter of fact, I dear informing you that on the 6th & 7th of April we shall finish (?) my thirty-years’ activities in Porrentruy with Bach’s Matthew’s Passion. Should you be in Europe at that time, I/we would be very happy to make your acquaintance.

As a matter of fact, I want to answer your questions:

a) my parents were both musicians, my mother soprano singer, my father harpsichord & piano player; both met as students in Munich in the twenties of last century.
b) the first music I listened to was Bach’s “Matthew Passion” in 1947, which marked my musical “illumination”
c) I studied organ playing with the famous organist, composer & conductor Anton Heiller and orchestral conducting with Hans Swarowsky in Vienna.
d) I also studied composition with Michael Jora, a former student of Max Reger.
e) I had my master classes in organ playing & improvisation for 40 years at the Vienna University of Music, 30 years in Porrentruy/CH with the “BACH-ACADEMY”, 20 years organ master-courses in the Principality of Liechtenstein, 10 years as a guest Professor for organ at the Music Academy in Lübeck/Germany.
f) As a composer, I wrote music for organ, for orchestra, for strings, for choir, a German Passion: “Leiden und Tod unsres Heilands Jesus Christus”. Michael Radulescu>>

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