Elegy. In Memorium Dan Michael Schlanger.

I came across this short Elegy but do not know anything of the person who is honoured in this piece accept what I found here.

The death was announced in May 2023 of Dan Michael Schlanger, actor, film and television producer and president of the Bucharest Jewish Film Festival.

The composer;
Șerban Nichifor was born on 25 August 1954. Both his parents were physicians. His father was also a musician and conductor of the Orchestra of Physicians in Bucharest.
In 1994, he received a Ph.D. in Musicology from National University of Music and from 1990 to 1994, also studied at the Theology Faculty of the University of Bucharest.In 2015, he was awarded a PhD summa cum laude in conducting, and wrote a thesis SHOAH – The Holocaust Reflected in My Musical Creation.

He has composed many works dedicated to the victims of The Holocaust. According to musicologist Octavian Cosma, Nichifor's eclectic style is based on neoromanticism but has included elements of jazz (in his Third and Fourth Symphonies). In the 1990s, he "developed a simplified style employing themes reminiscent of Byzantine chant.
Music of Șerban Nichifor is performed by leading musicians from all around the world. In February 2022, the Russian premiere of his work "Cries from Earth to Heaven" performed by Anastasia Vedyakova and Anastasia Bykova, took place.

Nichifor is a professor at the National University of Music. He married the late Romanian musician and composer Liana Alexandra in 1978. They performed together as cellist and pianist in the Duo Intermedia from 1990 and were co-directors of the Nuova Musica Consonante – Living Music Foundation Festival’

63 compositions including 9 symphonies and
Postludium" per Organo (1975)
Meditatio"per Organo (1990)
3 Christmas German Chorals" for Organ (1997)