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Andrei Văleanu

Composer of choral and chamber music whose settings of Moldavian folk songs are still sung by choirs across Romania.

Reference: Cultural Patrimony, andrei-valeanu

Particulars

Born
  • 14 March 1928
Died
  • 2009
City
  • Iași
Country
  • Romania
Activity
  • Composition and choral conducting
Field
  • Artists
Period of prominence
  • 1958–1994
Achievements
  • Prize of the Union of Composers, 1972

Status

Record
ProvisionalPublished version, not yet sealed
Listing
Premium
Last revised
6 November 2026

Portrait of Andrei Văleanu
Portrait of Andrei VăleanuSample image, to be replaced with material from Heroon
“A melody belongs to whoever sings it last.”

Biography

Andrei Văleanu studied composition at the Iași Conservatory and spent most of his working life in the city, teaching harmony and conducting the conservatory's chamber choir. From 1958 he collected songs in the villages of northern Moldavia and set them for mixed choir, keeping the irregular rhythms of the singers he recorded.

His output includes two string quartets, a cycle of songs on poems by his contemporaries and more than forty choral pieces. After 1994 he stopped composing and gave his field recordings to the conservatory library.

Major works

  • Songs from the Upper Siret, for mixed choir (1958–1966)
  • String Quartet No. 1 (1969)
  • Evening Liturgy, for chamber choir (1981)

Timeline

  1. 1958

    First field recordings in northern Moldavia

  2. 1972

    Prize of the Union of Composers

  3. 1994

    Field recordings given to the conservatory library

Legacy

His choral settings remain in the repertoire of school and church choirs, and the field recordings he collected are now part of the conservatory's sound archive.

Recordings

  • Evening Liturgy, opening (excerpt)

    24 s

    Chamber choir of the Iași Conservatory, 1983Sample file, to be replaced with material from Heroon

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Reference

Reference: Cultural Patrimony, andrei-valeanu

Last revised
6 November 2026
Record
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