HORA STACCATO Grigoras Dinicu, arr. for string quartet by Lucian Moraru

HORA STACCATO

Grigoras Dinicu, arr. for string quartet

by Lucian Moraru

SonArt Edition 2019

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by Helen Tuckey

Jascha Heifetz is rumoured to have said that Grigoras Dinicu (1889-1948) was the greatest violinist he had ever heard. A Roumanian violinist and composer of Roma ethnicity, Dinicu was banned from being accepted into the Vienna Conservatory where he had won a place. In the 1930s he was involved in a political movement seeking recognition for the Roumanian Roma. The Hora Staccato, based on a Roumanian dance, is one of his most famous works. The first and second violin parts are much more difficult than the lower parts, and the first violin is the star in this sparking arrangement, which can be viewed with the arranger’s quartet, “Traffic Strings”..

Website: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQXuiv0Fp30

Stringendo (Australian Strings Association’s magazine) - October, 2022