Anatol Vieru

Anatol Vieru (1926–1998) was a leading Romanian composer, music theoretician, and pedagogue. He was born in Iasi, in a Jewish family. After the Second World War, Vieru attended the Bucharest Conservatory between 1946 and 1951, and later the Moscow Conservatory, where his teacher was Aram Khachaturian. Vieru composed three operas, seven symphonies, eight string quartets, concertos, and chamber music. He has taught in Darmstadt, Jerusalem, New York, Chicago, Seattle and was awarded the Herder Prize in 1986.