Liviu Comes was a Romanian composer

Composer

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 and musicologist.

He studied music

Music

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 at the Municipal Music Conservatory in Târgu Mureş (1927–1937), later at the Cluj

Cluj-Napoca

Cluj-Napoca , commonly known as Cluj, is the fourth most populous city in Romania and the seat of Cluj County in the northwestern part of the country. Geographically, it is roughly equidistant from Bucharest , Budapest and Belgrade...

 Music Conservatory (1946–1950). He also studied medicine

Medicine

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 at the Cluj-Sibiu

Sibiu

Sibiu is a city in Transylvania, Romania with a population of 154,548. Located some 282 km north-west of Bucharest, the city straddles the Cibin River, a tributary of the river Olt...

 University (1937–1943).

Between 1950 and 1969 he was a professor of harmony

Harmony

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, counterpoint

Counterpoint

In music, counterpoint is the relationship between two or more voices that are independent in contour and rhythm and are harmonically interdependent . It has been most commonly identified in classical music, developing strongly during the Renaissance and in much of the common practice period,...

 and musical forms at the Music Conservatory in Cluj. Between 1965 and 1970 he was chancellor

Chancellor

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 of the same Conservatory.

From 1969 to 1981 he was professor of counterpoint and fugue

Fugue

In music, a fugue is a compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject that is introduced at the beginning in imitation and recurs frequently in the course of the composition....

 at the Bucharest

Bucharest

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Music Conservatory.