The Municipality will confer the title of Citizen of Honour of Chisinau on composer Eugen Doga. The Chisinau Municipal Council (CMC) decided on this issue on Tuesday, February 20. During the CMC session, interim Mayor Veaceslav Iordan said the title was awarded to Eugen Doga, a People’s Artist, Laureate of the State Prize, Chevalier of the Order of the Republic, Academician, “for distinguished merits in national culture and music”. Also via a CMC decision, the School of Music for Children no. 5, sited on Vasile Alecsandri Street, will be named after the famous composer. 2007 has been designated as “Eugen Doga Year” in Moldova. This proposal came from Parliament and was backed by the Government, as gratitude for the composer’s contribution to the development of the national culture and music and on the occasion of his 70-year birthday, which will be celebrated on 1 March 2007. Eugen Doga is the most famous Moldovan contemporary composer, whose works are recognized worldwide. He was born in 1937 in Mocra village, Transnistria. After graduating from the Conservatoire in Chisinau, he performed as violoncellist in the Orchestra of the State Committee of the Soviet Moldavia for television and radio (1957-1962), taught at the Music College “Stefan Neaga” from Chisinau (1962-1967), and worked from 1967 to 1972 at the repertory-editorial Board of the Ministry of Culture. He is the author of many priceless musical compositions, film and theater soundtracks. Eugen Doga has composed a symphony (1970), the symphonic poem “Mother” (thanks to a painting by A. David, 1965), the cantatas “The Spring of the World” (1970) and “The White Rainbow” (1983), and music for spectacles. Instrumental music, romances, songs for children, still enjoying widespread popularity, soundtracks for over 100 films, shot at different movie studios from Moldova and abroad belong to Eugen Doga („Looking for a Guard”, “Home for Serafim”, “Alone in Front of Love”, “Lautarii”, “The Gipsy Camp Disappears In The Skies”, “My Tender Beast”, “Anna Pavlova”, “Procustes’ Bed").