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    George Enescu was born in Romania in 1881 and showed early musical talent, composing pieces for violin and piano from a young age. He was accepted into the Vienna Conservatory at just 7 years old, the youngest student ever admitted. There, he studied with several prominent teachers and gave private concerts, including one before Emperor Franz Joseph. He later continued his studies in Paris at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he was influenced by teachers like Gabriel Fauré. Many of his compositions were influenced by Romanian folk music and included his two well-known Romanian Rhapsodies.

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    George Enescu was born in Romania in 1881 and showed early musical talent, composing pieces for violin and piano from a young age. He was accepted into the Vienna Conservatory at just 7 years old, the youngest student ever admitted. There, he studied with several prominent teachers and gave private concerts, including one before Emperor Franz Joseph. He later continued his studies in Paris at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he was influenced by teachers like Gabriel Fauré. Many of his compositions were influenced by Romanian folk music and included his two well-known Romanian Rhapsodies.

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    George Enescu was born in Romania in 1881 and showed early musical talent, composing pieces for violin and piano from a young age. He was accepted into the Vienna Conservatory at just 7 years old, the youngest student ever admitted. There, he studied with several prominent teachers and gave private concerts, including one before Emperor Franz Joseph. He later continued his studies in Paris at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he was influenced by teachers like Gabriel Fauré. Many of his compositions were influenced by Romanian folk music and included his two well-known Romanian Rhapsodies.

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    Enescu was born in Romania, in the village of Liveni (later renamed "George Enescu" in his

    honor), then in Dorohoi County, today Botoşani County. His father was Costache Enescu, a
    landholder, and his mother was Maria Enescu (née Cosmovici, the daughter of an Orthodox
    priest). He was their eighth child, born after all the previous siblings died in infancy. His
    father later separated from Maria Enescu and had another son with Maria Ferdinand-Suschi,
    the painter Dumitru Bâșcu.[2]

    A child prodigy, Enescu began experimenting with composing at an early age. Several,
    mostly very short, pieces survive, all for violin and piano. The earliest work of significant
    length bears the title Pămînt românesc ("Romanian Land"), and is inscribed "opus for piano
    and violin by George Enescu, Romanian composer, aged five years and a quarter".[3] Shortly
    thereafter, his father presented him to the professor and composer Eduard Caudella. On 5
    October 1888, at the age of seven, he became the youngest student ever admitted to the
    Vienna Conservatory,[4][5] where he studied with Joseph Hellmesberger Jr., Robert Fuchs, and
    Sigismund Bachrich. He was the second person ever admitted to this university by a
    dispensation of age (there was a regulation that stipulated that no person younger than
    14 years could study at the Vienna Conservatory), after only Fritz Kreisler (in 1882, also at
    the age of seven), and the first non-Austrian.[6]

    In 1891, the ten-year-old Enescu gave a private concert at the Court of Vienna, in the
    presence of Emperor Franz Joseph.[7]

    Joseph Hellmesberger Sr., one of his teachers and the director of the Vienna Conservatory,
    hosted Enescu at his home,[when?] where the child prodigy met his idol, Johannes Brahms.[8]

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    playing Johann Sebastian Bach's
    Concerto for Two Violins in D
    minor, BWV 1043 with Yehudi
    Menuhin and Pierre Monteux
    conducting the Symphony
    Orchestra of Paris in 1932 Here on
    archive.org

    He graduated at the age of 12, earning the silver medal. In his Viennese concerts young
    Enescu played works by Brahms, Sarasate and Mendelssohn. In 1895, he went to Paris to
    continue his studies. He studied violin with Martin Pierre Marsick, harmony with André
    Gedalge, and composition with Jules Massenet and Gabriel Fauré.[citation needed]

    Enescu then studied from 1895 to 1899 at the Conservatoire de Paris. André Gedalge said that
    he was "the only one [among his students] who truly had ideas and spirit".[This quote needs a citation]

    On 6 February 1898, at the age of 16, Enescu presented in Paris his first mature work, Poema
    Română, played by the Colonne Orchestra, then one of the most prestigious in the world, and
    conducted by Édouard Colonne.[9]
    Many of Enescu's works were influenced by Romanian folk music, his most popular
    compositions being the two Romanian Rhapsodies (1901–2), the opera Œdipe (1936), and the
    suites for orchestra.[citation needed] He also wrote five symphonies (two of them unfinished), a
    symphonic poem Vox maris, and much chamber music (three sonatas for violin and piano,
    two for cello and piano, a piano trio, two string quartets and two piano quartets, a wind decet
    (French, "dixtuor"), an octet for strings, a piano quintet, and a chamber symphony for twelve
    solo instruments). A young Ravi Shankar recalled in the 1960s how Enescu, who had
    developed a deep interest in Oriental music, rehearsed with Shankar's brother Uday Shankar
    and his musicians. Around the same time, Enescu took the young Yehudi Menuhin to the
    Colonial Exhibition in Paris, where he introduced him to the Gamelan Orchestra from
    Indonesia.[10]

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