About Eugen Doga
Eugen Doga (1 March 1937 – 3 June 2025) was a Moldovan composer. He made significant contributions to various forms of music during his career. Doga created ballets, Luceafărul, Venancia, and Queen Margot, the opera Dialogues of Love, more than 100 instrumental and choral works, symphonies, 6 quartets, Requiem and other church music. He also wrote incidental music for 13 plays, radio shows, more than 200 film scores, more than 260 songs and romances, more than 70 waltzes. He also composed works for children and the music for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1980 Summer Olympic Games in Moscow. The World Intellectual Property Organization (Geneva), in recognition of his outstanding achievements in music, awarded him a special certificate in 2007. == Life and career == === Early life and education === Doga was born on 1 March 1937 in the village of Mocra in the Rîbniţa District (then in Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic), in a Romanian family. The childhood of the composer coincided with a period of historical cataclysms – the war, repressions, hunger, poverty, and exhausting hard work (the composer's memories of his childhood). After finishing seven years at school, Doga with his friends went to Chișinău (barefoot and without money, as he recalled later) to enrol in the School of Music which he learned about when listening to a homemade radio. He was admitted to the music school, despite having no prior training.
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