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{{Short description|Romanian composer and pianist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}}'''Myriam Marbé''' (9 April 1931 in [[Bucharest]] – 25 December 1997 in Bucharest) was a [[Romania]]n [[composer]] and [[pianist]]. She won a number of prizes, including the GEDOK at Mannheim in 1961, 1966 and 1970, six first prizes from the Composers' Union of Romania, the Bernier Prize and the Romanian Academy Prize.

== Life ==
Marbe received her first [[piano]] lessons from her mother, Angela Marbe, who was a piano teacher.<ref name="Cohen">{{Cite book |last=Cohen |first=Aaron I. |title=International Encyclopedia of Women Composers |publisher=Books & Music (USA) |year=1987 |isbn=0-9617485-0-8 |edition=2nd |location=South Africa |pages=447}}</ref> Her father Max Marbe was a bacteriologist.<ref name=":0" /> She studied at the [[National University of Music Bucharest|Bucharest Conservatory]] from 1944 to 1954, where she took classes in piano with [[Florica Musicescu]] and [[Silvia Căpățână]], as well as in [[musical composition|composition]] with [[Leon Klepper]] and [[Mihail Jora]].<ref name="Cohen" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Beimel |first=Thomas |title=The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers |last2=Cosma |first2=Viorel |publisher=MacMillan |year=1994 |isbn=0-333-515986 |editor-last=Sadie |editor-first=Julie Anne |edition=1st |pages=311-312 |editor-last2=Samuel |editor-first2=Rhian}}</ref> From 1953 to 1965, she was a [[film director]] at the ''Casa de filme'' in Bucharest. She taught [[counterpoint]] and composition at the Bucharest Conservatory from 1954 to 1988, where her refusal to join the [[Romanian Communist Party]] prevented her from reaching the rank of Professor.<ref name=":0" />

Between 1968 and 1972, she managed to obtain permission from Romanian authorities to travel to the West and participate in the [[Darmstadt New Music Summer School]] in [[West Germany]], and in 1971, at the [[Royan Festival|Royan Festival for Contemporary Music]] in [[France]]. After the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, she was awarded a working grant from the German city of [[Mannheim]] for the year 1989–90. Marbe won a number of prizes, including the GEDOK at Mannheim in 1961, 1966 and 1970, six first prizes from the Composers' Union of Romania, the Bernier Prize and the Romanian Academy Prize.<ref name="Cohen" /><ref name=":1" />

Besides being a composer, Marbe worked as a journalist and [[musicology|musicologist]]. She co-authored a [[monograph]] on [[George Enescu]] and also wrote critical essays and analyses on musical style, and an essay on the role of women in Romanian folklore.<ref name=":1" />

The composer's collection is located at the Sophie Drinker Institut in [[Bremen]], and most of the scores are available at the institute's website.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |title=Vita Myriam Marbe |url=https://www.sophie-drinker-institut.de/vita |access-date=30 April 2025 |website=Sophie Drinker Institute |language=de}}</ref>

==Works==
*''Nunta Zamfirei'', [[ballet]], 1954
*Sonata for viola and piano, 1955
*''In Memoriam'', lyrical piece for [[oboe]], 2 [[French horn|horns]], piano, [[celesta]], [[drum kit|drum set]], and [[string instrument|string]] [[orchestra]], 1959
*''Chorsuite'', [[choir|choral]] [[suite (music)|suite]] on texts by {{ill|Ilie Constantin|ro}} and [[Paul Aristide]], 1959
*Sonata (''Prologo – Aria – Epilogo'') for 2 violas, 1966
*''Le Temps Inévitable'', 1968–71
*''Serenata – Eine kleine Sonnenmusik'', 1974
*''La parabol du grenier'' for an interpreter on piano, [[harpsichord]], [[celesta]], and optional [[glockenspiel]] and [[tubular bell]]s, 1975–76
*Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, 1977
*''Trium'', symphonic piece for large orchestra, 1978
*''Souvenir d'un paysage inconnu'' for flute and viola, 1979
*''Timpul regasit'' for [[soprano]] or [[tenor]], [[recorder (musical instrument)|recorder]], 3 [[viola]]s, [[Viol#Versions|alto and tenor viol]], and [[harpsichord]], 1982
*''Trommelbass'', for [[string trio]] and [[drum]]s, 1985
*''Sonata per due'' for viola and [[flute]], 1985
*''Des-cântec'' for woodwind quintet with doublings of piccolo, alto flute, english horn, e-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, and contrabassoon, 1985
*''An die Sonne'' for [[mezzo-soprano]] and [[saxophone]], 1986
*''Concertul pentru Daniel Kientzy și saxofon'', 1986
*''After nau'', [[sonata]] for [[cello]] and [[Organ (music)|organ]], 1987
*''Ur-Ariadne-Sinfonie Nr. 1'' for mezzo-soprano, saxophone, and orchestra, 1988
*''Dialogi – nicht nur ein Bilderbuch für Christian Morgenstern'', 1989
*''Farbe und Klang'', [[song cycle]] on texts by [[Ulrich von Liechtenstein]], [[Heinrich von Veldeke]], [[Heinrich Heine]], [[Friedrich von Hausen]], [[König Konrad]], and [[Christian Morgenstern]]
*''Fra Angelico – Chagall – Voronet – Requiem'' for mezzo-soprano, choir, and [[chamber music|chamber]] ensemble, 1990
*''[[Stabat Mater]]'' for 12 voices and flute, oboe, [[clarinet]], [[bassoon]], [[trumpet]], horn, [[trombone]], [[percussion instrument|percussion]], viola, and [[double bass]]
*''Paos'' for viola and clarinet, 1995
*''Sym-phonia'' for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble on poems by [[Else Lasker-Schüler]], 1996
*''arc-en-ciel'' for recorder and flute, 1997
*''Song of Ruth'' for 5 cellos, 1997

==Notes==
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==References==
*[[Thomas Beimel]]. ''Vom Ritual zur Abstraktion – über die rumänische Komponistin Myriam Marbe''. Wuppertal and Unna: Tokkata-Verlag, 1994
*{{ill|Volker Blumenthaler|de|Volker Blumenthaler}} and Jeremias Schwarzer, ed. ''Myriam Marbe: Komponistin zwischen Ritual und Intellekt''. Saarbrücken: PFAU-Verlag, 2001. {{ISBN|3-89727-155-9}}.
* Kadja Grönke [https://web.archive.org/web/20140214213509/http://www.sophie-drinker-institut.de/cms/index.php?page=priv--doz-dr-kadja-groenke Sophie Drinker Institut – Priv.-Doz. Dr. Kadja Grönke]. Vita – Würdigung – Nachlass: [http://www.sophie-drinker-institut.de/cms/index.php?page=wuerdigung]

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