DIMA MUSEUM
Despite the name of the museum in his native Brasov, on the southern edge of the Carpathian mountains, Gheorghe Dima is no longer commemorated in the house in which he was born. That house still stands, at Sirul Gheorghe Dima 4, just outside the old city walls; the first Dima museum opened there in 1957, but in 1990 the displays and the Dima Archive were temporarily moved to another Brasov museum in the medieval main square of the city (see Muresianu).
DIMA MUSEUM Photo Gallery
Gheorghe Dima was born on 10 October 1847, into an old and well-known Brasov merchant family. He went abroad to study music, to Vienna and finally to Leipzig, returning to Romania first as a baritone recitalist and then a teacher at the Romanian Gymnasium in Brasov, and later in Cluj (the conservatory where he served as director from 1919 until his death in 1925 bears his name), as a choral conductor in Brasov and Sibiu, and as a composer of folksong-based vocal music.
Today Dima’s legacy shares its quarters, in the former print room of the Muresianu publishing firm, with recital facilities – a boudoir grand piano and seating for 35. On display around the periphery of the room are a bust, a plaster death mask and a cast of his right hand, Dima’s desk and other furniture, as well as programmes and music. There are also wall panels with reproductions of documents and photographs, among them one showing this rather dignified and serious man riding a camel on holiday in Egypt.
