# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cornel-taranu
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:49:56.033Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cornel-taranu"
name: "Cornel Țăranu"
slug: "cornel-taranu"
description: "Cornel Țăranu was a Romanian classical composer, musicologist, conductor and cultural manager. A native of Cluj-Napoca in Transylvania, he was always attached to this region, and contributed to cultural cooperation between Romanian and ethnic Hungarian musicians. He studied locally, at the Cluj Academy, assimilating the local avatar of neoclassicism, alongside influences from Romanian folk music—though his debut years also evidenced conformity with Socialist Realism, he was reportedly censured by the communist regime for keeping company with sidelined figures, such as the poet Lucian Blaga. A teacher at his alma mater, he furthered his studies abroad, at the Conservatoire de Paris, becoming an authority on, and posthumous disciple of, George Enescu. Braving controversy, he worked on completing unfinished scores by Enescu, including his Fifth Symphony and a musical poem, Strigoii. In parallel, he founded Cluj's Ars Nova, a chamber orchestra dedicated to contemporary classical music and performance art."
tagline: "Romanien composer and conductor (1934–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cornel_%C8%9A%C4%83ranu_in_1975.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1934-06-20"
deathDate: "2023-06-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.2
  momentum:             2.335766423357664
  historical:           10.806084
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0850241/"
    handle:    "nm0850241"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornel_%C8%9A%C4%83ranu"
    title: "Cornel Țăranu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornel_%C8%9A%C4%83ranu"
    title: "Cornel Țăranu"
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  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornel_%C8%9A%C4%83ranu"
    title: "Cornel Țăranu"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornel_%C8%9A%C4%83ranu"
    title: "Cornel Țăranu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornel_%C8%9A%C4%83ranu"
    title: "Cornel Țăranu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Cornel Țăranu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornel_%C8%9A%C4%83ranu"
    title: "Cornel Țăranu"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornel_%C8%9A%C4%83ranu"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump