George Enescu was a renowned 19th century Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor and teacher. Gheorghe Zamfir is a famous Romanian pan flute musician. Constantin Brâncuși was a pioneering modern sculptor born in the late 19th century. Angela Gheorghiu is a prominent Romanian soprano opera singer born in 1965. Herta Müller is a Romanian-born German writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Mircea Eliade was a leading 20th century Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago.