The C.I. şi C.C. Nottara Memorial Museum
The C.I. and C.C. Nottara Memorial Museum was founded in 1956 through the donation initiated by Ana Nottara, wife of composer Constantin C. Nottara (1890-1951). The museum is on the ground and first floor of the house, built in 1931 with the help of a financial contribution from the Drama Artists Syndicate, and from a group of admirers symbolically called the “Nottara House”.
Constantin C. Nottara studied in Paris and Berlin, was a teacher at the Conservatory, a violinist, and an orchestra conductor, drawing his inspiration from the diversity of Romanian folklore. He composed symphonies, chorals, lieders, opera and ballet music. The museum has a vast library containing about 7300 copies (belles-lettres, plays, journalism, dictionaries, and music sheets), as well as Louis XVI furniture, oriental tables, inter-war paintings, statuettes, and Severes and Alt Wien porcelain items. These objects were gathered by the musician Constantin C. Nottara throughout his travels across Europe, where he held numerous concerts. The collection includes photographs, official papers, diplomas and medals, personal objects, as well as reverential decorative objects, received as gifts for various celebrations. The C.I. and C.C. Nottara Memorial Museum still has the atmosphere of a 1930s residence, and its memorial value is set apart by details of the interior ambience, maintained without change from the time of musician Constantin C. Nottara’s period of glory. Presently, the museum functions according to a contract allowing the renting of the building found at nr.105 on Dacia Boulevard. |
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