Born on his father's estate of Florica, in Ştefăneşti, Argeş County, he completed his secondary education at the Saint Sava National College in Bucharest ( 1882 ), and volunteered for the Romanian Army's artillery-serving for six months before becoming a Second lieutenant.

The majority of Banyash Roma in Serbia today live in mixed communities with different South Slav groups along the rivers: Danube, Sava, Tisa and Morava, but they can also be found in some villages cohabiting with the Romanian language speaking Vlachs of Croatia and Serbia.

* The Romanian composer Iancu Dumitrescu ( 1944 –) wrote the 1975 work Le miroir de Cagliostro for choir, flute and percussion.

Romania's most portant general, Petre Dumitrescu, was commander of the Romanian Third Army at Stalingrad.

Petre Dumitrescu (; 18 February 1882 – 15 January 1950 ) was a Romanian general during World War II, who led the Romanian Third Army on its campaign against the Red Army in the eastern front.

At that point his army and the German 11th army switched places, with Italians continuing advancement over the Dniester towards the Southern Bug river, and Dumitrescu remaining on recovered Romanian territory.

For his effort in this campaign, Dumitrescu was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, the second Romanian to receive the award after Ion Antonescu.

In November 1942 the Red Army launched a devastating attack in the southwest, breaking through the Romanian line and forcing Dumitrescu into retreat.

It comprises three compositions for the Romanian Hyperion Ensemble, of which Hodgkinson conducted two and played on one ( conducted by Iancu Dumitrescu ); two compositions performed by Hodgkinson: one for bass clarinet and tape, one for computer-modified cello and electric guitar ; one piece for two clarinets, one doubling on bass, and piano, performed by Isabelle Duthoit, Jacques Di Donato and Pascale Berthelot.

Features of spectralism are also seen independently in the contemporary work of Romanian composers Ştefan Niculescu, Horatiu Radulescu, and Iancu Dumitrescu.

Romanian folk music, as collected by Béla Bartók ( 1904 – 1918 ), with its acoustic scales derived directly from resonance and natural wind instruments like " buciume ", " tulnice ", and " cimpoi " inspired several spectral composers: Vieru, Stroe, Niculescu, Dumitrescu and Nemescu.