Born in Lugoj in 1903, celebrated operetta composer Filaret Barbu started at the local school before going to Caransebeș and later to Vienna, where he studied violin and counterpoint. Returning to Lugoj, he was appointed music teacher at the Coriolan Brediceanu High School and conductor of the Ion Vidu Choir.
On 6 Filaret Barbu Street in Lugoj, on the west side of the park behind the Town Hall, stands the house where the musician lived. An L-shaped corner house, it distinguishes by a blunted angle punctuated by a blind niche. If at the time both sides of the house gave access to the interior, with an ample frame opening on the south-west side, today entrance is only possible on the long side of the house.
Covered in face brick and featuring eight openings on the north, long side and three on the short, south-vest side, the façades are quite elaborated compared to the built surface, indicative of a plastic reconfiguration intervention, at the end of the 19th century. These current elements are obviously a later addition, as reveals the lack of both correlation between the cornice and the upper register of the façade, and of calibration between ornament and façade size.
Each of the openings on the façades, the corner blind window included, are richly decorated, with highly individual frames, volutes, acanthi, and putti heads, in a Baroque-influenced framework and retaining the original woodwork with sculpted arches.
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