Ştefan Niculescu (*1927), who has received many prizes as a composer,
Ştefan Niculescu (*1927), who has received many prizes as a composer, musicologist and educator, studied in the 1940's with the most important Rumanian musical fi gures of the period. In the 1960's he participated in the vacation courses in Darmstadt, held by Ligeti and Stockhausen; in Munich he studied with Kagel and in the Siemens Studio he became involved with electronic and electro-acoustic music. Today Niculescu is considered one of the most renowned composers for contemporary music in Rumania.