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Al. Vasiliu-Tãtãrusi cunoscut si necunoscut
Al. Vasiliu-Tãtãrusi, a well known Moldavian folklorist at the beginning of the 20th century, authored two volumes of songs and stories collected from his native village, where he worked as a teacher for all his life. He identified himself so much with the village that he attached its name to his own and this is how he is known to this day. The two books (Cântece, urãturi si bocete de-ale poporului – Folk Songs, Expressions of Good Will, and Laments for the Dead – and Povesti si legende – Stories and Legends), and his lifelong contributions to “Sezãtoarea”, one of the most important journals specialized in Romanian folk culture, imposed him as a knowledgeable and competent scholar. During the fall of 1928, when H. Pernot, the director of Musée de la Parole et du Geste in Paris came to Romania to record folk songs and stories on the recently invented phonograph, Al. Vasiliu-Tãtãrusi was called to Bucharest to offer some folk songs from his birth place. He recorded a number of 16 pieces (three songs, four doïnas, a wedding ceremonial song, a haiduk song, five melodies played on the pipe he was always carrying with him, and two stories). In this way he became the most valued folklore informant from Moldova in the collection housed by the French museum. In the correspondence that followed H. Pernot’s departure, Al. Vasiliu-Tătăruşi sent him the only preserved picture of himself, as well as a short autobiographical note containing the date of his birth, a piece of information that, for some unknown reasons, had escaped his biographers. |
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