Cella Delavrancea
Cella Delavrancea | |
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Born | |
Died | 9 August 1991 Bucharest | (aged 103)
Resting place | Bellu Cemetery, Bucharest |
Nationality | Romanian |
Occupation(s) | Pianist, writer, teacher of piano |
Spouse(s) | Viorel Tilea Aristide Blank Philippe Lahovary |
Parent(s) | Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea (father) Maria Lupașcu (mother) |
Cella Delavrancea (15 December 1887 – 9 August 1991) was a Romanian pianist, writer and teacher of piano, eldest daughter of writer
Biography
Daughter of writer
In 1929, she started in literature in Tudor Arghezi's magazine, Bilete de papagal, collaborating after 1935 with magazines Cuvântul, Muzică și poezie, Timpul, Curentul, România Literară, Revista Fundațiilor Regale, etc. and, after 1950, at Contemporanul, Gazeta literară or Secolul XX. Her main works, short stories, novels or memoirs, are Vraja (1946), Mozaic în timp (1973), O vară ciudată (1975), Dintr-un secol de viață (1987), etc.[4] She was the first Romanian artist who participated in a gala concert organized to celebrate the centenary of her own in 1987, at the Romanian Athenaeum, in which she played with her student and friend Dan Grigore. She was buried in Bellu Cemetery.
References
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- ^ "Valori ale culturii naționale: Cella Delavrancea: 122 ani de la naștere". Amos News (in Romanian). 15 December 2009.
- ^ Manea, Irina (10 January 2013). "Nae Ionescu și femeile". Historia.ro (in Romanian).
- ^ Marcu, George (2009). Dicționarul personalităților feminine din România (in Romanian). Bucharest: Meronia.
- ^ Zaciu, Mircea; Papahagi, Marian; Sasu, Aurel (1998). Dicționarul scriitorilor români (in Romanian). Vol. II. Bucharest: Albatros.