George Enescu - a famous musician since his early childhood, highly praised in Europe and in North America for both his performances as a violin virtuoso as well as his well-known Romanian Rhapsodies. And yet, this musician represents the typical case of a composer whose importance has never been fully understood even during his lifetime.

Collective memory has mainly focused firstly on the two Romanian Rhapsodies, that he composed at the aged of 20, then - to a much smaller degree - on a Sonata for Piano and Violin "in Romanian folkloristic character" (op.25). The composer Enescu was thereby attributed an exotic, folk quality, assuming further that he was to be regarded as another picturesque representant of a certain "national school".