Lina Pires de Campos née Del Vecchio (18 June 1918 – 14 April 2003) was a Brazilian pianist, music educator and composer of both classical and popular music.

Life

Lina Pires de Campos was born in São Paulo

São Paulo

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, Brazil

Brazil

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, the daughter of Italian luthier

Luthier

A luthier is someone who makes or repairs lutes and other string instruments. In the United States, the term is used interchangeably with a term for the specialty of each maker, such as violinmaker, guitar maker, lute maker, etc...

 Angelo Del Vecchio. She studied piano with Ema Lubrano Franco and Léo Peracchi and music theory and composition with Furio Franceschini, Caldeira Filho and Osvaldo Lacerda

Osvaldo Lacerda

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. Later she studied composition with 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...

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Pires de Campos worked as assistant to Magda Tagliaferro

Magda Tagliaferro

Magdalena Maria Yvonne Tagliaferro was a Brazilian-born pianist of French extraction. Born in Petropolis, Brazil, she studied under Antonin Marmontel and Alfred Cortot...

and in 1964 founded her own piano school. She won awards as a composer including in 1961 the Roquete Pinto medal and the second place composition prize from Radio Mec. Her works have been performed internationally.

Works

Selected works include:

• Improvisação I for flute
• Improvisação II for flute
• Improvisação III for flute
• Ponteio e Toccatina for guitar
• Quatro Prelúdios for viola
• Confession song (lyrics by Alice Guarnieri)
• Embolada
• I'm Like the Spring
• Fad
• Portrait
• Tune
• You Say He Loves Me

Her works have been recorded and issued on disc, including:

• 1984 25 Years of Composition, (LP)
• 1998 Lina Pires de Campos: Audible Universe Audio CD