Harry Brauner was a Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

n ethnomusicologist, and composer, professor of music, director of the Institut de Folklor in Bucharest (1949-1950). He is the brother of Victor Brauner

Victor Brauner

Victor Brauner was a Romanian Jewish painter of surrealistic images.-Early life:He was born in Piatra Neamţ, the son of a timber manufacturer who subsequently settled in Vienna with his family for a few years. It is there that young Victor attended elementary school...

 and the husband of Lena Constante

Lena Constante

Lena Constante was a Romanian artist, essayist and memoirist, known for her work in stage design and tapestry. A family friend of Communist Party politician Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu, she was arrested by the Communist regime following the conflict between Pătrăşcanu and Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej...

. Harry Brauner is known as Constantin Brăiloiu

Constantin Brăiloiu

Constantin Brăiloiu was a Romanian composer and internationally known ethnomusicologist.He was born in Bucharest. He studied in Bucharest , Vienna , Vevey and Lausanne as well as Paris...

's disciple and colleague. Brauner was implicated in the show trial against Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu

Lucretiu Patrascanu

Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu was a Romanian communist politician and leading member of the Communist Party of Romania , also noted for his activities as a lawyer, sociologist and economist. For a while, he was a professor at Bucharest University...

 and spent 12 years in prison, most of it in solitary confinement; he was later rehabilitated by Nicolae Ceauşescu

Nicolae Ceausescu

Nicolae Ceaușescu was a Romanian Communist politician. He was General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989, and as such was the country's second and last Communist leader...

and worked as a researcher and journalist.