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Grigoras Dinicu was a prominent composer and violinist in his time, an musician who drew accolades for his virtuosity from many world-renowned performers, including Jascha Heifetz, who called him probably the most talented violinist he previously ever encountered. Dinicu’s popularity, both as composer and performer, begun to fade after his …

Alongside Gheorghe Zamfir, Damian Luca, Constantin Oprea, and a small number of various other pan flutists, Simion Stanciu, who utilized the stage name Syrinx, was imperative to the popularizing from the pan flute in the past due 20th century. Stanciu was a virtuoso skillet flutist who also constructed and organized …