Brauner was born in
Piatra Neamț into a Jewish family with many children, including his elder brother,
Victor, who became a noted painter and sculptor of the
Surrealist movement. He moved in 1913 to Vienna with his family, where they stayed for two years. When they returned to Romania, they lived first in
Brăila, and later in
Bucharest. There he studied at the
Music Academy, having as teachers, among others,
Constantin Brăiloiu,
Dumitru Georgescu Kiriac, and Ștefan Popescu. In 1927, he was named secretary of the Composers' Society's so-called Folklore Archives. sent into internal exile to a village near
Slobozia. He married
Lena Constante in 1964. In 1966, he was allowed to travel to the
Venice Biennale, Italy, where his brother
Victor Brauner exhibited some of his works at the French pavilion. He died in 1988 in Bucharest. ==Books==