Constantin Silvestri (13 May 1913, Bucharest – 23 February 1969, London) was a Romanian conductor and composer.
Silvestri studied the piano as a child. He studied at the Târgu Mureş Conservatory, and later at the Bucharest Conservatory. His teachers in Bucharest included Mihail Jora (composition) and Florica Muzicescu (piano).
Silvestri made his conducting debut in 1930 with the National Radio Orchestra of Romania in his own composition Prelude a...
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Constantin Silvestri (13 May 1913, Bucharest – 23 February 1969, London) was a Romanian conductor and composer.
Silvestri studied the piano as a child. He studied at the Târgu Mureş Conservatory, and later at the Bucharest Conservatory. His teachers in Bucharest included Mihail Jora (composition) and Florica Muzicescu (piano).
Silvestri made his conducting debut in 1930 with the National Radio Orchestra of Romania in his own composition Prelude and Fugue (Toccata). He conducted at the Romanian National Opera from 1935 on, and, following the brief tenures of two caretakers, he also directed the Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra for six years as successor to George Georgescu, in disgrace as a Nazi collaborator. Georgescu, ironically, assumed directorship of the Radio Orchestra; following Silvestri's emigration to the West, Georgescu would resume his place at the head of the Philharmonic, shortly thereafter renamed the George Enescu Philharmonic. From 1948 to 1956, Silvestri taught at the...
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