Harry Brauner

Harry Brauner (24 February 1908 - 11 March 1988) was a Romanian ethnomusicologist, composer, and professor of music.

Life Brauner was born in Piatra Neamț into a Jewish family with many children, including his elder brother, Victor, who became a noted painter and sculptor of the Surrealist movement. He moved in 1913 to Vienna with his family, where they stayed for two years. When they returned to Romania, they lived first in Brăila, and later in Bucharest. There he studied at the Music Academy, having as teachers, among others, Constantin Brăiloiu, Dumitru Georgescu Kiriac, and Ștefan Popescu. In 1927, he was named secretary of the Composers' Society's so-called Folklore Archives. sent into internal exile to a village near Slobozia. He married Lena Constante in 1964. In 1966, he was allowed to travel to the Venice Biennale, Italy, where his brother Victor Brauner exhibited some of his works at the French pavilion. He died in 1988 in Bucharest.

Books 1979. Să auzi iarba cum crește ("To Hear How the Grass Grows"). Bucharest: Editura Eminescu