Abstract
This article brings to the fore interesting documents from the archive of the famous Belgian Marsick family of musicians. Martin-Pierre Marsick was George Enescu’s violin teacher at the Paris Conservatory. Today, the family archive holds a series of documents attesting to the connection of the Romanian musician with his former teacher and his nephew – Armand, his fellow student in Paris. Posted online, but also provided personally by Jacques Marsick – himself a descendant of Armand Marsick, along with permission to research, present, and use them for academic purposes, the study presents several handwritten letters, photographs, concert programs and various other documents that link George Enescu’s name with those of the members of the Marsick family.

Keywords: Enescu, the Marsick family, violin, concert, commemoration.

About the author
Irina Niţu is a musicologist, a scientific researcher at the “George Enescu” National Museum (GENM), an accredited expert in movable cultural goods – Romanian music history documents – by the Ministry of Culture / National Commission of Museums and Collections, and holds a PhD degree in Music (2011) and a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Musicology from the National University of Music Bucharest. She has attended specialization courses – piano, musicology (Aveiro, Portugal, 2003), museum curation and museography, organized by the National Institute for Cultural Research and Training (Bucharest, 2015-2016). She has published books, musicology studies, articles and reviews at Editura Muzicală, in the journals Muzica, Actualitatea Muzicală, Revista Muzeelor, ProContemporania, No14PlusMinus, etc.

DOI: 10.47809/MP.2024.39.01.03

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