Harry Brauner

Who was Harry Brauner?

Harry Brauner was a Romanian ethnomusicologist, and composer, professor of music, director of the Institut de Folclor in Bucharest. Born into a Jewish family, he was good friends with Romanian folk music diva Maria Tanase, with whom he shared a lifelong friendship. He is the brother of Victor Brauner and the husband of Lena Constante. Harry Brauner is known as Constantin Brăiloiu's disciple and colleague. Brauner was implicated in the show trial against Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu and spent 12 years in prison, most of it in solitary confinement; he was later rehabilitated by Nicolae Ceauşescu and worked as a researcher and journalist.