Michael Radulescu comes from a family of musicians and was born in 1943 as the son of a Romanian father and a German mother. After his first music lessons at home and his first attempts at composition, he began studying organ with Victor Bickerich in 1956 and composition with the prominent Reger student Mihail Jora in 1957.
After attending the summer academies "Mozarteum" in Salzburg in 1964 and 1965 and meeting Carl Orff and Thrasybulos Georgiades, he continued his studies at the Academy (now University) for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna as a pupil of Anton Heiller (organ) and Hans Swarowsky (conducting).
As a composer, Radulescu was initially decisively influenced by his early involvement with the music of Hindemith and Webern, and subsequently received decisive impulses from the compositions of Schönberg, Boulez and Ligeti, as well as from the sounds of medieval music, the works of Olivier Messiaen and Carl Orff. The turn towards the earliest musical outlook and the inclusion of the oldest, elementary compositional techniques and concepts of form, together with contemporary playing practices in his musical language, give it its expression in the field of tension between the perception of time in early epochs and that of our time, in the temporal and spatial organisation of the sound material and its parameters, in their relation to language, gesture and movement. Michael Radulescu’s compositional oeuvre includes choral works, organ music, works for voice and organ, for choir and orchestra, orchestral and ensemble music and has received recognition through commissions from important ensembles as well as numerous awards and distinctions. In 2003 the sensational world premiere of his Passion ("Suffering and Death of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ"), commissioned by the Graz Cathedral, took place in Graz Cathedral.
Toccata IX-XII
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 282743
Toccata I-IV
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 282741
Earliest Organ Music (ca. 1330 - 1448)
Diletto Musicale - Doblingers Reihe alter Musik
for: Organ (manuals)
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 282728
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 282742
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 282497
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 282498
for: Voice, percussion
Ensemble score
Item no.: 681361
for: Recorder, percussion
Ensemble score
Item no.: 283116
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1560232
for: Voice (alto), organ
Score
Item no.: 192384
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 689778
for: Organ
Score
Item no.: 582575
for: 2 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos (sextet)
Study score
Item no.: 1670676
for: Treble recorder
Item no.: 283120
for: Viola
Music score
Item no.: 305877
for: Voice (alto)
Score
Item no.: 431670
for: 2 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos (sextet)
Study score
Item no.: 310462
for: Recorder, harpsichord
Item no.: 283093
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 289603
for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 228892
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Ensemble score
Item no.: 245869
for: Voice (soprano), organ
Score
Item no.: 492074
Version für Orgel und Schlagwerk
(original für Orgel solo)
for: Organ, percussion
Organ score, solo part
Item no.: 684716
Eine Passion(2003)
for: SOLI (AB) 2 gemischter Chor ENSEMBLE
Study score
Item no.: 431793
for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 292518
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 308194
for: 5 wind instruments
Study score
Item no.: 310134
for: Violin, viola, cello (string trio)
Set of parts
Item no.: 306276
Recitativo a 6
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Ensemble score
Item no.: 184589
for: Voice (soprano), organ
Score
Item no.: 183662
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 309473
für 4 Chöre und Röhrenglocken
for: 4 GCH SCHLAGZ
Choir score
Item no.: 308210
for: Voice (soprano), organ
Score
Item no.: 306789
for: Voice (soprano), organ
Score
Item no.: 183661
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 309475
for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 173874
for: Cello
Score
Item no.: 305939
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 245867
for: Flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon (wind quintet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 306421
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 309474
für Streichtrio
for: Violin, viola, cello (string trio)
Study score
Item no.: 310355
for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 305638
for: Violin, viola, cello (string trio)
Study score
Item no.: 310182
für 2 Streichtrios
for: 2 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos (sextet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 207252
for: ORG 4 KLAV 4 POS 2 KB 2 SCHLAGZ
Item no.: 305705
for: 2 GCH SCHLAGZ
Score
Item no.: 245868
für Streichtrio
for: Violin, viola, cello (string trio)
Set of parts
Item no.: 306270
for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 282927