[8] The World Intellectual Property Organization (Geneva), in recognition of his outstanding achievements in music, awarded him with a special certificate in 2007.

[9] Doga was born on 1 March 1937 in the village of Mocra in the Rîbniţa District (then in Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic), in a Romanian family.

Thanks to his natural talent and hard work, Eugen Doga managed to quickly catch up, mastered musical notation and learned to play cello.

He still has the fondest memories of his cello teacher Pablo Giovanni Baccini, who with his personal example greatly influenced the future destiny of the composer.

In 1951–1955 he studied at the Music School in Chișinău, specializing in cello, and then at the Conservatory where one of his classmates was a future opera star Maria Bieșu.

[14] Doga studied for another 5 years at the Art Institute "Gavriil Musicescu",[15] in the class of Professor S. Lobel specializing in composition.

1 January 1957 for the first time in his work, "New Year song" (Cântec de anul nou) was performed on the Moldovan radio children's choir and orchestra under the baton Shiko Aranova.

This orchestra for many years gave a lot of concerts with Eugen Doga's music everywhere, throughout the Soviet Union" – Mikhail Murzak.

In 2014, his waltz "Gramophone" was performed in the hall Ateneum Roman at the annual awarding of the Romanian Academy for outstanding achievements in the field of culture, science and education, along with works by Mozart, Enescu, Strauss and Borodin.

[72] The Fund is designed to facilitate the implementation of the composer's creative and spiritual principles – cooperation in the field of musical art, cinema.

In cinema music I was able to express all of my stylistic aspirations; I got to work with great orchestras, musicians, and movie directors from around the world"[75] – says Eugen Doga.

[77] In 1970, Eugen Doga began his creative collaboration with director Emil Loteanu, starting with the movie "Lautarii" (1973, 13, 8 million viewers[78])) about folk musicians of Moldova, whose music he used to listen to as a child.

Eugen Doga grew up in a region where, according to him, there were "great folk traditions," where his maternal ancestors lived (the composer kept the book of the genealogic tree of his mother's family going back 300 years[79]).

Based on that folklore, he wrote the music for the movie which created a furor and brought the authors a Silver shell at the International Film Festival in San Sebastian.

In 1976, already at Mosfilm, Eugen Doga together with Loteanu created the movie "Queen of the Gypsies"(1976, Soviet leader rolled in 1976, 65 million viewers, copies have been sold in 120 countries.

viewers[84]) A famous waltz from the movie became wildly popular;[85] it has become a cult, many newlyweds use it for their first dance and you can often hear it on the radio and TV.

[89] Today this tune is performed every day not only in sounds not only in Marriage Registrations Hall, but also on subway, and on the streets; it is often by choreographers for staging of ballet and dance routines,[90] and by athletes.

Canadian ice-skater, Madeline Schizas, performed to the lyrics version of the Waltz during the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing and made it to the third place.

American ice-skater, Isabeau Levito, skated to the poetry version written by Eugen Doga and Victoria Demici during the 2023 U.S.

"To his music in the Soviet cinema people kept silent, cried, got married, went to heaven" – the NTV channel[95] Eugen Doga found success not only in films by Loteanu.

In Palermo and in San Sebastian, in Bucharest and in Moscow jury always together with the talent of directors recognized the contribution by the composer – "rare, poetic music, and its full integration with the storyline."

[98] He composed music for many films, including Soviet productions Maria, Mirabela (1981) and My Sweet and Tender Beast (1978), which is known under its international title A Hunting Accident.

[101][102][103] The other Doga's celebrated waltz is Gramophone (Граммофон), composed in 1992, for the nonsuccessful Belarusian crime film Without Evidence (Без улик).

Of Russian classics: Poets of the Silver Age, the names V. Bryusov, K. Balmont, Marina Tsvetaeva, A. Koltsov, S. Yesenin, Vl.

In the early 1970s, Eugen Doga began writing a ballet based on the poem Luceafărul[107] – the greatest work by the classic of Romanian literature Mihai Eminescu.

A dream of love, a collapse of romantic illusions, cosmic infinity of the stellar world and earthly reality are all outlined with completed musical images in continuous symphonic development using the combination of traditional techniques of Western European and Russian theater classics and national character of musical images.

Eugen Doga visited Nicaragua, Argentina, Honduras, Brazil[116] where he studied unique folklore of Latin American countries and collected material for a ballet.

The premiere of a concert version of the ballet took place in 2007 in Chișinău (Moldova) performed by the orchestra, chorus and soloists of the Moldavian Philharmonic.

In 1972 Eugen Doga for the first time wrote two works for chorus on the poems by a genius of Romanian literature Mihai Eminescu.

In the creative work of Eugen Doga, the poetry by Mihai Eminescu and his lover, poet Veronica Micle occupied a very important place.