Romanian composer, philosopher and linguist (1932 - 2008)
Aurel Stroe (5 May 1932, inBucharest – 3 October 2008, inMannheim) was a Romanian composer, philosopher and linguist. In 2002 he was awarded theHerder Prize from theUniversity of Vienna; and in 2006 he was awarded the Promaetheus Prize by the Anonimul Foundation.[1]
From 1951 to 1956 Stroe studied piano with Maria Totino, composition withMihail Andricu, and harmony with Marṭian Negrea at theBucharest Conservatory. He also took summer courses at the Darmstadt Conservatory from 1966 to 1969 where he was a pupil ofMauricio Kagel,György Ligeti, andKarlheinz Stockhausen. He was awarded a scholarship from theGerman Academic Exchange Service which enabled him to pursue research at the International Comparative Musicology Institute of Alain Danielou in 1972-1973.[1]
Stroe was appointed the position ofreader at the Bucharest Conservatory in 1962. He left that position in 1985 to become a visiting professor at theUniversity of Illinois. From 1986 to 1993 he was a professor of composition at the Mannheim Hochschule für Musik.[1]
