Alfvén & Enescu: Ett folkligt receptionsresultat. Den traditionella kulturen i dagens Västeuropa

Sammanfattning: Romanian political and musical history is a complex and intense story that has undergone a major change during the 20th century with composers such as George Enescu and political events such as Romanian Revolution, 1989. Folk traditions and songs have for a long time been an essential part of the country’s identity, and through Enescu’s two rhapsodies and a music-pedagogical children’s book - “Alfvén & Enescu: i musikogen” - Romania has taken a step closer to the western world, with emphasis on Sweden, and with folklore as the core between them. With the help of my analysis and Mark Everist text about reception history, I want to contribute to the knowledge of how music history and pedagogy are used ideologically in today’s Romania through a children’s pedagogical book to approach Western Europe. I would like to point out the interaction that is emphasized between the Swedish composer Hugo Alfvén (1872-1960) and the Romanian composer Geroge Enescu (1881-1955), but also present what is not emphasized between the two composers and purpose why it may be so. As a result, a complex and long history of past recipients resulted in an effect that’s absorbed by future young recipients.