Great personalities of military music. Ioan Vlăduță – head of music, general inspector of military music, composer, military

The history of military music records the work of several great personalities of the genre, capable soldiers and accomplished musicians. Their musical, organizational and military activity directly influenced the existence of military and civilian fanfare bands in Romania. Ioan Vlăduță is a representative name for the first half of the 20th century, going through all the stages from band boy, instrumentalist, conductor, band leader, to the supreme position of general inspector of Romanian Military Music. His life intertwined compositional, conducting and coordinating activity - both in peacetime and during the years of the First World War, at the front.