19th September 2017
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George Enescu, who died in 1955, is Romania’s most celebrated composer. A child prodigy, he wrote an opus for piano and violin entitled “Romanian Land” at the age of five. He studied at the Vienna Conservatory and then the Conservatoire de Paris. As well as a prolific composer, he was a distinguished conductor, and was […]
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19th September 2017
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One of the strands of the Embassy’s current #BritainInRomania campaign is to highlight all of the cities in Romania in which the UK has ever had a consulate or other form of diplomatic representation. This took me earlier this month to Focșani, capital of the county of Vrancea, some three hours drive to the north […]
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