Reflections – Florian Mitrea

Music and harmony

February 20, 2022January 15, 2018

Photograph of an old timber building on the Danube delta

Béla Bartók – 6 Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm from Mikrokosmos Sz. 107 Folk music has always been a source of inspiration for classical composers (it made its way into the works of almost all composers – think of Beethoven’s Scottish Songs, or Haydn’s Hungarian Piano Trio or indeed his Capriccio on the folksong ‘Acht Sauschneider …

Of wooden sticks…

February 10, 2022January 7, 2018

Monochrome photograph of a bird in a tree on the Danube delta

When I was small, I used to throw little wooden sticks into every river I came across. I had learnt at school that all the rivers of my country eventually flow into the Danube, and with my grandparents living at the mouth of the Danube Delta, just before the grand river ends up in the …