In Memory of Eugen Doga.
An Evening of Romanian Music in Iași

In a time of celebrating our identity, we invite you to a special evening dedicated to the memory of composer Eugen Doga and the beauty of Romanian music. His departure from among us this year leaves an immense void, but also a priceless legacy: music that unites souls and times.

Through this concert we wish to experience together the emotion, honor and joy of having had him among us – an artist who made music a form of love.

The Artists of the Evening

A Tribute to the Maestro

On the evening of December 3rd, the "Procopiu" Hall of the Palace of Culture in Iași will become, for a few hours, a space of contemplation and celebration. A place where the silence between two notes will say as much as the music itself. Iași will honor Eugen Doga, the composer who transformed the waltz into a form of prayer and love into a universal language.

Having left us this year, the maestro leaves behind not only a discreet but profound void, but also a sonic map of an entire Romanian world – from both sides of the Prut River. Born on March 1, 1937, in the village of Mocra, on the left bank of the Dniester, Eugen Doga grew up in a Moldova politically fractured but whole in its melodies. He studied cello, then composition, and gradually came to be recognized as one of the great composers of the 20th century in the Romanian space.

The Music of a Genius

From the stages of Chișinău, Moscow, or Bucharest, to Olympic ceremonies and concert halls around the world, his music has crossed borders, ideologies, and eras. He wrote film music, ballet music, lieder, symphonic works, over two hundred soundtracks for films and shows. But for millions of people, his name is attached to a few titles spoken with almost childlike tenderness: "The Fiddlers", "The Gypsy Camp", "A Hunting Accident", "Maria Mirabela".

The waltz from the film "A Hunting Accident" – declared by UNESCO among the great musical masterpieces of the 20th century – has become over time more than a famous work: a kind of sonic calling card for an entire cultural space. It is the music at which wedding dances opened, nostalgia was healed, and tears were wiped away.

The Evening's Repertoire

At the invitation of Veronica Gavril, the concert organizer and founder of the "Read. Love. Live" project, the three artists build together a sonic dialogue between Eugen Doga's creations and other Romanian classical pieces.

It is not just a concert, but a conversation between generations, styles, and symbols – a journey through emotion, elegance, and light. The audience can listen to works such as:

• "A Hunting Accident" — the famous waltz
• "The Love Waltz"
• "Gramophone"
• Romanian songs full of charm and tradition

An Architect of Universes

Eugen Doga was not just "the composer of a famous waltz," but an architect of universes. He raised, from sounds, a symphonic "Luceafăr", gave voice to love through "Dialoguri de amor," wrote for orchestra, for choir, for cinema, and for children, with the same seriousness with which others write treatises. He received high titles, orders, and medals – from "People's Artist" to "Star of Romania".

One of his great strengths was his ability to unite. In a region where borders have too often been drawn on maps and in souls, Doga's music functioned as an invisible bridge. He belonged equally to Bessarabia and Romania, to the Romanian space and the wider world. He spoke of longing, love, beauty, and dignity in a language that anyone, anywhere, can understand.

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