Abstract

Between 1936 and 1938, Sigismund Toduță attended an advanced study program in the Italian capital. This was a pivotal moment in the history of Romanian music, in that the Maestro from Cluj obtained the first doctorate in music for Romania. In the early twentieth-century Rome, as in all the other important cultural centres (Paris, Berlin, Vienna, London), the fervent artistic life attracted world-famous musicians and, along with them, major musical events that everyone wished to attend. It is in this context that we find Toduță as an eminent student of the Santa Cecilia Music Academy (presently called Conservatory) and of the Institute of Sacred Music, where he impressed his great Italian teachers Casella, Pizzetti, Casimiri etc. with his enthusiasm for learning.

Keywords: national-universal, memories, complementarities, discoveries

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