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Enesco

American  
[e-nes-koh] / ɛˈnɛs koʊ /
Also Enescu

noun

  1. Georges 1881–1955, Romanian violinist, composer, and conductor: teacher of Yehudi Menuhin.


Enesco British  
/ ɛˈnɛskəʊ /

noun

  1. Georges (ʒɔrʒ), original name George Enescu. 1881–1955, Romanian violinist and composer

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The second program tilts toward Central Europe, with works by Johann Strauss II, Enesco and Lehar.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2010

In a Bucharest movie house Enesco, now 64 and bent with arthritis, played piano to Yehudi's fiddle, and conducted the Rumanian Philharmonic Orchestra.

From Time Magazine Archive

The master had been a prodigy too: Georges Enesco, son of a Rumanian peasant, became a highly talented composer, violinist, pianist, conductor and musical scholar.

From Time Magazine Archive

Except for the Gluck overture with which he began, Enesco played music that Manhattan seldom hears.

From Time Magazine Archive

Enesco, 327. enharmonic, modulation, 52-53. episode, definition of, 39-40. exposition of Sonata-form, 96. extended cadences, 62-63.

From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond

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