Artist

Horatiu Radulescu

Romanian-French composer, born 7th January 1942 in Bucharest; died 25th September 2008 in Paris. He studied the violin privately with Nina Alexandrescu (a pupil of ) and subsequently composition at (MA 1969), where his teachers included , and . Towards the late 1960s, he became involved in the development of Romanian spectralism, alongside Corneliu Cezar and Octavian Nemescu In 1969 Radulescu moved to Paris (he became a French citizen in 1974); here, initially inspired by Stockhausen, he began to develop his version of Spectral Music. In the early 1970s he attended classes given by , , and at the , and by and at ; 1979 to 1981, he studied computer-assisted composition and psycho-acoustics at . From the mid-1970s Radulescu’s works were performed at leading European festivals including La Rochelle, Royan, and ; in 1983 he founded the in Paris to perform his works, and in 1991 the Lucero Festival. Publisher: