Dimitrie Cuclin was a Romanian composer and music educator. He was born in Galati on April 5, 1885, and received the State Prize of Romania for his Thirteenth Symphony in 1955.
He studied at the Bucharest Conservatory from 1903 to 1907 with D. Kiriac-Georgescu and A. Castaldi. In 1907 he continued his studies at the Paris Conservatory with C. M. Widor, then studied composition at the Schola Cantorum from 1908 to 1914 with V. d'Indy and O. Sérieyx.
Cuclin taught at the Bucharest Conservatory in 1918–1922 and 1930–1948, and at the Brooklyn Conservatory in New York from 1924 to 1930. He was one of Romania's leading symphonists and also wrote musicological articles.
His works include the operas Soria (1911), Trajan and Dokia (1921), Agamemnon (1922), and Bellerophon (1925). His orchestral works include 20 symphonies, a Scherzo (1912), four suites, a rhapsody, and concertos for piano, violin, and clarinet. He died in Bucharest on February 7, 1978.