Born in Roman, his father Miltiade Gheorghiu was a career army officer, while his mother was a primary-school teacher.
From 1930 to 1932, thanks to a scholarship obtained through Ion Minulescu, then director general at the Culture and Arts Ministry, he studied at the Schola Cantorum de Paris under Paul Braud.
[1] Gheorghiu undertook a sustained activity as musicologist and popularizer (Din muzica și viața compozitorilor, 1942, prefaced by Ionel Teodoreanu; Un muzician genial: George Enescu, 1944; Inițiere muzicală, 1946).
He announced a novel, Taraful de noapte, and a musicological text, Trei romantici (Chopin, Schumann, Liszt), but these never appeared.
Gheorghiu, who suffered from heart disease, died of shock brought on by the 1977 Vrancea earthquake, leaving behind unpublished manuscripts.
Dual in nature, equally inclined toward avant-garde iconoclasm and formal rigor, Gheorghiu was an original creator of sylvan poems, refined and bucolic in inspiration.