Ciprian Porumbescu

Ciprian Porumbescu is a Romanian composer and conductor. Ciprian Porumbescu was born in the village of Sipotele Sucevei, Suceava county of Bukovyna as a son of Iraclie Golembiowski, a Romanian writer and priest of Polish descent, who later changed his surname to Porumbescu. Porumbescu Jr. studied music under Karol Mikula, Nosiewicz (music theory), Mayer, Schloetzer (violin), and Sydir Vorobkevych (harmony and choral conducting). It was Vorobkevych, in fact, who helped the young man to reveal his talent and improve his skills. The aspiring composer created his first tunes in Chernivtsi, where he was the conductor for the Abrorasa Choral Society in 1875-77, directed student and worker amateur music groups and choirs, and participated in the national liberation movement against the oppressive Austro-Hungarian rule, the latter activity landing him in jail for a time... His songs, as well as operetta The Candidate Linte, all composed in Chernivtsi, exposed injustices committed by officia