Camargo Guarnieri
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Mozart Camargo Guarnieri (February 1, 1907 Tietê, São Paulo
– January 13, 1993 São Paulo
) was a Brazil
ian composer.
Guarnieri, another one Verdi Guarnieri.
in Paris. Some of his compositions received important prizes in the United States in the 1940s, giving Guarnieri the opportunity of conducting them in New York, Boston, Los Angeles and Chicago. A distinguished figure of the Brazilian national school, he served in several capacities; conductor of the São Paulo Orchestra, member of the Academia Brasileira de Música, and Director of the São Paulo Conservatório, where he taught composition and orchestral conducting. In 1936 he was the first conductor of the Coral Paulistano choir. His œuvre comprises symphonies
, concerto
s, cantata
s, two opera
s, chamber music
, many piano pieces, and over fifty canções. He is universally recognised as the most important Brazilian composer after Heitor Villa-Lobos
. Shortly before his death in 1993, he was awarded the Gabriela Mistral
Prize by the Organization of American States
as the greatest contemporary composer of the Americas.
He was a National Patron of Delta Omicron
, an international professional music fraternity.
São Paulo (state)
São Paulo is a state in Brazil. It is the major industrial and economic powerhouse of the Brazilian economy. Named after Saint Paul, São Paulo has the largest population, industrial complex, and economic production in the country. It is the richest state in Brazil...
– January 13, 1993 São Paulo
São Paulo
São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
) was a Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
ian composer.
Name
He was registered at birth as Mozart Guarnieri, but when he began a musical career, he decided his first name was too pretentious and subject to puns. Thus he adopted his mother's maiden name Camargo as a middle name, and thenceforth signed himself M. Camargo Guarnieri. In 1948, he legally changed his name to Mozart Camargo Guarnieri, but continued to sign only the initial of his first name. One of his brothers was named Rossine, a Portuguese misspelling of RossiniGioacchino Rossini
Gioachino Antonio Rossini was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music, chamber music, songs, and some instrumental and piano pieces...
Guarnieri, another one Verdi Guarnieri.
Life
He studied piano and composition at the São Paulo Conservatório, and subsequently worked with Charles KoechlinCharles Koechlin
Charles Louis Eugène Koechlin was a French composer, teacher and writer on music. He was a political radical all his life and a passionate enthusiast for such diverse things as medieval music, The Jungle Book of Rudyard Kipling, Johann Sebastian Bach, film stars , travelling, stereoscopic...
in Paris. Some of his compositions received important prizes in the United States in the 1940s, giving Guarnieri the opportunity of conducting them in New York, Boston, Los Angeles and Chicago. A distinguished figure of the Brazilian national school, he served in several capacities; conductor of the São Paulo Orchestra, member of the Academia Brasileira de Música, and Director of the São Paulo Conservatório, where he taught composition and orchestral conducting. In 1936 he was the first conductor of the Coral Paulistano choir. His œuvre comprises symphonies
Symphony
A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, scored almost always for orchestra. A symphony usually contains at least one movement or episode composed according to the sonata principle...
, concerto
Concerto
A concerto is a musical work usually composed in three parts or movements, in which one solo instrument is accompanied by an orchestra.The etymology is uncertain, but the word seems to have originated from the conjunction of the two Latin words...
s, cantata
Cantata
A cantata is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir....
s, two opera
Opera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
s, chamber music
Chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...
, many piano pieces, and over fifty canções. He is universally recognised as the most important Brazilian composer after Heitor Villa-Lobos
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Heitor Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian composer, described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Villa-Lobos has become the best-known and most significant Latin American composer to date. He wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works...
. Shortly before his death in 1993, he was awarded the Gabriela Mistral
Gabriela Mistral
Gabriela Mistral was the pseudonym of Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga, a Chilean poet, educator, diplomat, and feminist who was the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1945...
Prize by the Organization of American States
Organization of American States
The Organization of American States is a regional international organization, headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States...
as the greatest contemporary composer of the Americas.
He was a National Patron of Delta Omicron
Delta Omicron
Delta Omicron is a co-ed international professional music honors fraternity whose mission is to promote and support excellence in music and musicianship.-History:...
, an international professional music fraternity.
Opera
- Pedro Malazarte (comic opera in one act, librettoLibrettoA libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata, or musical. The term "libretto" is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as mass, requiem, and sacred cantata, or even the story line of a...
by Mario de AndradeMário de AndradeMário Raul de Morais Andrade was a Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer. One of the founders of Brazilian modernism, he virtually created modern Brazilian poetry with the publication of his Paulicéia Desvairada in 1922...
, premiered in May 1952 at the Theatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro) - Um homem só (tragic opera in one act, librettoLibrettoA libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata, or musical. The term "libretto" is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as mass, requiem, and sacred cantata, or even the story line of a...
by Gianfrancesco GuarnieriGianfrancesco GuarnieriGianfrancesco Sigfrido Benedetto Marinenghi de Guarnieri was a Brazilian actor and playwright.- External links :...
, premiered on November 29, 1962, at the Theatro Municipal in Rio de JaneiroRio de JaneiroRio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
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Orchestral
- Symphonies
- Symphony No. 1
- Symphony No. 2 "Uirapuru"
- Symphony No. 3
- Symphony No. 4 "Brasília"
- Symphony No. 5
- Symphony No. 6
- Overtures
- Abertura Concertante (1942)
- Abertura Festiva (1971)
- Suites
- Suite infantil (1929)
- Suite IV Centenario (1954)
- Suite Vila Rica (1957), taken from the music for the film "Rebelião em Vila Rica"
Concertante
- Piano
- Piano Concerto No. 1 (1931)
- Piano Concerto No. 2 (1946)
- Piano Concerto No. 3 (1964)
- Piano Concerto No. 4 (1968)
- Piano Concerto No. 5 (1970)
- Piano Concerto No. 6 (1987)
- Variations (Variações sobre um tema nordestino) for Piano and Orchestra (1953)
- Violin
- Violin Concerto No. 1 (1940)
- Violin Concerto No. 2 (1952)
Chamber/Instrumental
- String Quartets
- String Quartet No. 1 (1932)
- String Quartet No. 2 (1944)
- String Quartet No. 3 (1962)
- Cello Sonatas
- Cello Sonata No. 1 (1931)
- Cello Sonata No. 2 (1955)
- Cello Sonata No. 3 (1977)
- Violin Sonatas
- Violin Sonata No. 1
- Violin Sonata No. 2
- Violin Sonata No. 3
- Violin Sonata No. 4
- Violin Sonata No. 5
- Violin Sonata No. 6
- Violin Sonata No. 7
- Viola Sonata (1950)
Books
- Flavio Silva: Camargo Guarnieri - O tempo e a musica. Fundacion Nacional de Arte-Funarte. 2001.
- Mozart Camargo Guarnieri: Livro - O Tempo E A Musica Editora: Imesp. 672 p. 2001 ISBN 8575070096
- Marion Verhaalen: Camargo Guarnieri, Brazilian Composer. Indiana University Press. 2005.