Stylistic and structural peculiarities of the sonata ”Ludus Fistula” for flute and piano by Pavel Rusu

Pavel Rusu’s creation encompasses a wide range of musical genres, ranging from symphonic and choral to chamber music – both instrumental and vocal. Stylistically, P. Rusu was attracted by the diversity of 20th-century composition on the one hand, and on the other, he was particularly interested in folklore, allowing this field to shape his individual compositional style, while his opuses were dominated by the intonation and colors of folk music. The Sonata for Flute and Piano Ludus Fistula (1984) is a concert piece that perfectly exemplifies these observations. Having never been researched or published, the Sonata will be the object of study of the present article, in which the first attempts are made to fill this gap in the historiography of national music..