Eunice do Monte Lima Katunda (Catunda) (14 March 1915 – August 1991) was a Brazilian pianist, music educator and composer.

Life

Katunda was born in Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

Rio 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...

 and studied piano with Oscar Guanabarino and Marieta Lion, composition with Furio Franceschini, Camargo Guarnieri

Camargo Guarnieri

Mozart Camargo Guarnieri was a Brazilian 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...

 and Hans-Joachim Koellreutter

Hans-Joachim Koellreutter

Hans-Joachim Koellreutter was a composer, teacher and musicologist...

, and conducting with Hermann Scherchen

Hermann Scherchen

Hermann Scherchen was a German conductor.-Life:Scherchen was originally a violist and played among the violas of the Bluthner Orchestra of Berlin while still in his teens...

. Beginning in 1944, she worked as a concert pianist and was a member of the Música Viva ensemble founded by Koellreutter. In 1950 she began the study of Brazilian folk music with Pierre Verger. Katunda taught musicology at the University of Brasília

University of Brasília

The University of Brasília , is one of the largest and most prestigious Brazilian public universities funded by the Brazilian federal government...

 and composition at the Rio de Janeiro Conservatory. She died in São José dos Campos

São José dos Campos

São José dos Campos is a municipality and a major city in the state of São Paulo, Brazil and one of the most important industrial and research centers in Latin America. It is located in the Paraíba Valley, between the two most active production and consumption regions in the country, São Paulo ...

.

Works

Katunda often combined folk element with 12-note technique. Selected compositions include:

• A Flauta (in Duas líricas gregas)
• Anunciação (in Canções à maneira de época) (Text: Vinícius de Moraes)
• Aóion (in Duas líricas gregas)
• Assim como as folhas (in Canções à maneira de época) (Text: Vinícius de Moraes)
• Bom Jesus do Calvário (in Duas devoções nordestinas)
• Consciência de ser (in Estro Romântico) (Text: Eunice Katunda)
• Dialética (in Estro Romântico) (Text: Vinícius de Moraes)
• Encomenda de Almas (in Duas devoções nordestinas)
• Estro africano n.2 (Águas de Oxalá) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• Incelença das Ave-Marias (in Quatro Incelenças (Quatro cantigas de velório))
• Incelenças do anjo do céu (in Quatro Incelenças (Quatro cantigas de velório))
• Incelenças do anjo-Serafim (in Quatro Incelenças (Quatro cantigas de velório))
• Incelenças dos cravos e rosas (in Quatro Incelenças (Quatro cantigas de velório))
• Louvor de Oxum (in Estro africano n.1 (Duas cantigas das águas)) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• Louvor de Yemanjá (in Estro africano n.1 (Duas cantigas das águas)) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• Moda da solidão-solitude (in Líricas brasileiras) (Text: Mário de Andrade)
• Moda do corajoso (in Líricas brasileiras) (Text: Mário de Andrade)
• Não comerei (in Canções à maneira de época) (Text: Vinícius de Moraes)
• O anjo das pernas tortas (in Canções à maneira de época) (Text: Vinícius de Moraes)
• O espectro da rosa (in Canções à maneira de época) (Text: Vinícius de Moraes)
• O mais que perfeito (in Canções à maneira de época) (Text: Vinícius de Moraes)
• O sono da amada (in Estro Romântico) (Text: Vinícius de Moraes)
• Pois que tão raramente (in Duas líricas gregas)
• Prenúncio do Sol (in Duas líricas gregas)
• Refrão de infância (in Canções à maneira de época) (Text: Vinícius de Moraes)
• Rosa dos quatro espinhos (in Estro Romântico) (Text: Eunice Katunda)
• Ser subjetivo (in Canções à maneira de época) (Text: Vinícius de Moraes)
• Seresta do maior amor (Text: Vinícius de Moraes)
• Sono una creatura (in Due lirici di Ungaretti) (Text: Giuseppe Ungaretti)
• Teu nome (in Canções à maneira de época) (Text: Vinícius de Moraes)
• Trenoda al poeta morto (Text: Giuseppe Ungaretti)
• Negrinho do pastoreio cantata for 3vv, flute, guitar, percussion, 1946
• Cantata do soldado morto, chorus, small orchestra, 1965
• Cantata dos marinheiros, chorus, orchestra, 1975
• 4 cantos à morte, 1948
• A negrinha e Iemanjá, chorus, orchestra, 1955
• Pianoforte Concerto, 1955
• Homenagem a Schoenberg, clarinet, viola, violincello, piano, 1949
• Serestas, 4 sax, 1956
• 2 serestas, guitar, 1972
• Momento de Lorca, for piano, 1957
• 4 momentos de Rilke, for piano, 1958
• Sonata de louvação, for piano, 1960
• Sonata fúnebre, for piano, 1970