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Carmen Petra-Basacopol

Carmen Petra-Basacopol (5 November 1926 - 15 October 2023) was born in Sibiu. She studied composition at the Bucharest Conservatory of Music from 1949-56 with Mihail Jora, Paul Constantinescu and Tudor Ciortea, and philosophy at the University of Bucharest from 1945-49. She studied at the Darmstadt Center for New Music in 1968, and received a doctorate from the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1962 she took a teaching position at the Bucharest Conservatory.