Andrei Tudor

Andrei Tudor ((born Isaac Rozenzweig; August 31, 1907, Brăila – June 18, 1959, Bucharest) was a Romanian poet, translator and musicologist.

Life
Tudor was born to a Jewish family in Brăila, the son of Mayer and Tony Rozenzweig. After graduating from the Nicolae Bălcescu National College in 1926, he attended law school at University of Bucharest. He was licensed to practice in 1930, though ultimately never pursued a career in law. Instead, Tudor decided to pursue a literary and journalistic career in the capital; allowing himself a more intellectually conducive environment in which he could write about his true interests.

In 1940, Romania legislated its equivalent of the Nuremberg Laws, at approximately the same time when Tudor’s career began to gain traction. Much like other prominent Jewish writers of the time, his name was suppressed from media.

While in Prague in 1959, he fell ill. He ultimately sought treatment in Bucharest, but shortly thereafter succumbed to his illness as a result of medical negligence while hospitalized.

Career
Tudor debuted his literary career in 1927 with a translation of French poet Francis Jammes. His first the poem, Trupește, was printed in 1928. Tudor's poetry and prose appeared in avant-garde publications. Several newspapers and periodicals regularly printed his musical, theatre and cinema reviews. In 1935 his first and only poetry volume, Love 1926, was awarded the poetry prize by Fundația Pentru Literatură și Artă "Regele Carol II". It was published in 1937. Along with other members of the Criterion group, Tudor was closely associated with, the now defunct, Pro-Arte music conservatory. After the war he translated Social realist poets from the USSR, Czechoslovakia and Korea. but his interests increasingly turned to music. He held lectures to popularize classical music before live audiences and on the radio. Tudor, an early Enescu scholar, curated the newly (1956) established museum  dedicated to the composer. In May 1955 he wrote a proposal for an international Enescu festival. The first edition of the festival took place in 1958. Tudor worked at several cultural institutions:
 * 1951 - 1952 editor-in-chief at Revista Muzica [The Music Journal] (official publication of the Union of Composers and Musicologists from Romania)
 * 1950 - 1959 professor at the Bucharest Conservatory
 * 1951 - 1959 director - Music History department, Art History Institute, Romanian Academy
 * 1951 - 1956 professor at the Institute for Theatre I. L. Caragiale Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film
 * 1955 - 1959 Editorial Committee member  Studii și Cercetări de Istoria Artei [Art history: Studies and Research] (official publication of the Romanian Academy, Art History Institute)

Poetry

 * (1937) Love 1926: poems

Translations

 * (1927) Francis Jammes Prayer


 * (1950) Soviet poets: Peace songs


 * (1951) Korean poetry selections


 * (1952) The book of blood: the heroic resistance of the Greek people
 * (1955) Vítězslav Nezval A song of peace

Prose

 * (1947) Moscow : The metropolis of the new world

Translations

 * (1953) Leonid Lench Funny Stories

Books

 * (1951) Sovietic music in full swing Pref.


 * (1957) Enescu
 * (1959) George Enescu: His Life in Pictures

Essays

 * (1945) A note on tradition in soviet music


 * (1947) Three decades of soviet music


 * (1956) Enescu's work and the problems of folk themes use in musical creation
 * (1955) Eduard Caudella and the Romanian lyrical theatre
 * (1959) New creative aspects of contemporary Romanian symphonic music

Articles

 * (1946) Music Chronicle
 * (1946) The Society of Rumanian Composers
 * (1946) The Forthcoming Musical Season
 * (1947) Rumanian Musicians and the Exchange of Culture
 * (1947) Opening of the Season
 * (1947) Rumanian Artistic Relations With Foreign Countries
 * (1955) Rumanian Music Forges Ahead