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List Of Brazilian Composers ...
This is a list of composers who are either native to the country of Brazil, are a citizen of that nation, or have spent a major portion of their career living and working in Brazil. The list is arranged in alphabetical order: A B C D F G H J * João MacDowell K L M N O P R S T V Z See also * Chronological list of Brazilian classical composers *Music of Brazil References {{Reflist Brazilian Composers A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Composers
This is a list of lists of composers grouped by various criteria. Name *List of composers by name Women *List of female composers by name *List of female composers by birth date *List of Australian female composers Genre *Anime composer *List of Carnatic composers *List of film score composers *List of major opera composers * List of composers of musicals * List of musicals by composer: A to L, M to Z *List of ragtime composers *List of sports television composers * List of symphony composers *List of acousmatic-music composers * List of Spaghetti Western composers *List of television theme music composers Era *List of classical music composers by era *List of Medieval composers * List of Renaissance composers *List of Baroque composers *List of Classical-era composers *List of Romantic-era composers *List of 20th-century classical composers *List of 21st-century classical composers Nationality or ethnicity * Chronological lists of classical composers by nationality * Lis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafael Bittencourt
Angra is a Brazilian power metal band formed in 1991. They have released nine regular studio albums, five EPs, and three live CD/DVDs to date. Led by Rafael Bittencourt, the band has gained a degree of popularity in Japan and Europe. History Formation Angra was formed in November 1991 by Santa Marcelina Music College students vocalist Andre Matos and guitarists Rafael Bittencourt and André Linhares. They were joined by Bittencourt's former bandmate Marcos Antunes (drums) and bassist Luís Mariutti (ex-Firebox). This line-up composed a number of the earliest songs, with Rafael Bittencourt and Andre Matos emerging as the main songwriters. Two of the first songs written were "Time" and "Angels Cry", which both featured on the band's first album''.'' The song "Queen of the Night", composed by Matos and Bittencourt, was originally titled "Rainha" ("Queen") and had been one of the songs from Bittencourt and Antunes previous band. The song "Carry On" was composed by Andre Matos and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cláudio Camunguelo
Cláudio Camunguelo (June 5, 1947 – December 24, 2007) was a Brazilian flautist, dancer, composer and singer/improviser of samba and choro . His compositions were used by several of the more famous sambistas and choro artists including Zeca Pagodinho Jessé Gomes da Silva Filho, known professionally as Zeca Pagodinho (, born February 4, 1959), is a Brazilian singer-songwriter working in the genres of samba and pagode. Biography Born in the neighborhood of Irajá, Rio de Janeiro, Zeca Pagodin .... External linksCamunguelo at Answers.com 1947 births 2007 deaths< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lina Pires De Campos
Lina Pires de Campos née Del Vecchio (São Paulo, 18 June 1918 – São Paulo, 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, Brazil, the daughter of Italian luthier 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. Later she studied composition with Camargo Guarnieri. Pires de Campos worked as assistant to Magda Tagliaferro Magdalena Maria Yvonne Tagliaferro (19 January 18939 September 1986) was a Brazilian-born pianist of French parentage. Magdalena Tagliaferro was born in Petrópolis, Brazil. Her father, who had studied piano with Raoul Pugno in Paris, was a voi ... 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chico Buarque
Francisco Buarque de Hollanda (born 19 June 1944), popularly known simply as Chico Buarque, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer, playwright, writer, and poet. He is best known for his music, which often includes social, economic, and cultural reflections on Brazil. The firstborn son of Sérgio Buarque de Hollanda, Buarque lived at several locations throughout his childhood, though mostly in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Rome. He wrote and studied literature as a child and found music through the bossa nova compositions of Tom Jobim and João Gilberto. He performed as a singer and guitarist in the 1960s as well as writing a play that was deemed dangerous by the Brazilian military dictatorship of the time. Buarque, along with several Tropicalist and MPB musicians, was threatened by the Brazilian military government and eventually left Brazil for Italy in 1969. However, he came back to Brazil in 1970, and continued to record, perform, and write, though much of hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sérgio Britto
Sérgio Britto (, born Sérgio de Britto Álvares Affonso(September 18, 1959) is a Brazilian musician, best known as a member of the rock band Titãs, for which he contributes with lead vocals, keyboards and, more recently, the bass guitar. He has also released three solo albums. Childhood Sérgio Britto is the only carioca of the group, but left Rio de Janeiro when he was a baby. He lived with his siblings Rui and Gláucia in Brasília when in 1964 the military took over Brazil. Their father, the federal deputy Almino Afonso, head of PTB at the Chamber of Deputies and enemy of the dictatorship had to leave the country in order not to be arrested. One year later, when Sergio's younger brother Fábio was born, they left the country. During his nine years of exile in Chile, he was alphabetized in Castellano. He grew up listening to Beethoven, Chopin, and other classical music composers, which his father listened to frequently. Until he turned 13, he wished to be a painter. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jayme Caetano Braun
Jayme Guilherme Caetano Braun (Bossoroca, January 30, 1924 – Porto Alegre, July 8, 1999) was a Brazilian folk musician, poet and composer . Jayme was the most famous payador of Rio Grande do Sul Rio Grande do Sul (, , ; "Great River of the South") is a Federative units of Brazil, state in the South Region, Brazil, southern region of Brazil. It is the Federative_units_of_Brazil#List, fifth-most-populous state and the List of Brazilian st ... and had great participation in the dissemination of the gaúcho culture in Brazil and the world. Between 1973 and 1988, he had a weekly radio program on Radio Guaíba. Bibliography *1954 - ''Galpão de Estância'' *1958 - ''De Fogão em Fogão'' *1965 - ''Potreiro de Guaxos'' *1966 - ''Bota de Garrão'' *1966 - ''Brasil Grande do Sul'' *1966 - ''Passagens Perdidas'' *1990 - ''Payador e Troveiro'' *1996 - ''50 Anos de Poesia'' Discography *1993 - ''Paisagens Perdidas'' *1993 - ''Poemas Gaúchos'' 1924 births 1999 deaths Brazili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leci Brandão
Leci Brandão (, Rio de Janeiro, September 12, 1944) is a Brazilian politician, singer and composer of Brazilian Popular Music (Música Popular Brasileira or MPB). She is the daughter of Pérola Negra, one of the artists who pioneered in making the Brazilian pagode music popular throughout the land. Her performance of "Quero Sim" won the National Meeting of Samba Composers in 1973. One of Leci Brandão's latest performances was in 2005 with ''Raça Brasileira: 20 Anos'' (DVD: 'Raca Brasileira', rated NR, one hour/2005) with many other Brazilian samba greats (i.e. Beth Carvalho, Arlindo Cruz, Almir Guineto, etc.). As a Black Brazilian, a woman, and an artist, Leci Brandão has long taken opportunities to declare herself against racism and all other forms of discrimination. She has lent her name, voice and cache by performing in LGBT events against homophobia Homophobia encompasses a range of negative attitude (psychology), attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality or pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernani Braga
Ernani Braga (born Hernani da Costa Braga;Celina Garcia Delmonaco Tarragò Grovermann''O ''Cancioneiro Gaúcho'' de Ernani Braga: um estudo histórico analítico de uma obra composta para o Bicentenário de Porto Alegre em 1940''.(Master thesis). Porto Alegre, 2011. January 10, 1888 – September 17, 1948) was a Brazilian composer, pianist and conductor, concerned to belong to the second generation of the nationalists in music. He composed works for voice, choir, orchestra and piano. He is little known outside the South America. Antônio Francisco Braga (1868–1945), with whom he is sometimes confused, was his teacher and friend. Among Ernani Braga's pupils was Camargo Guarnieri. Life Early years and studies Braga was born in Rio de Janeiro on January 10, 1888 to a Portuguese family, a fifth child of the nine. His father, João Joaquim da Costa Braga, was a prosperous merchant, who moved to Brazil in the middle of the 19th century. His mother was Antônia Maria Xavier Braga. E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antônio Francisco Braga
Antônio Francisco Braga (April 15, 1868 – March 14, 1945) was a Brazilian music composer. Braga was born in Rio de Janeiro, and studied with Luiz António de Moura and Carlos de Mesquita. In 1886, he founded the ''Sociedade de Concertos Populares''. As the Brazilian Republic was declared in 1889, his composition '' Hino à bandeira'' was adopted as the Brazilian national anthem. Starting in 1890 Antônio Francisco Braga studied at the Conservatoire in Paris with Jules Massenet. After that he spent time both in Germany and in Italy and then returned to Brazil in 1900. Upon his return to Brazil, Antônio Francisco Braga taught at the ''Instituto Nacional de Música'' and was the conductor of the ''Sociedade de Concertos Sinfonicos'' between 1908 and 1933. One of his pupils was Brazilian pianist and composer Cacilda Borges Barbosa. Antônio Francisco Braga composed three operas and produced orchestral pieces, chamber music, piano pieces and many songs. Works *''Missa de S. Franc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cláudio Botelho
Cláudio Botelho (born November 20, 1964) is a Brazilian actor, singer, composer and translator. Side by side with his fellow Charles Möeller, he is esteemed as Brazil's modern "musical theatre wizard". He was born in Araguari, Minas Gerais. Controversy Cláudio Botelho has been involved in controversy surrounding a musical inspired by Chico Buarque which contained critics (inserted by Botelho) to the leaders of Partido dos Trabalhadores – the political party supported by Buarque. The lines inserted by Botelho caused anger in the crowd, which caused Botelho to react defying the public to leave and get their money back. As result, all the public left, the piece was interrupted and never was presented again, since Buarque withdrawed permission to Botelho using his works. Cláudio Botelho has recently used the social networks to spread hate speech against transgender people. Botelho openly declared that parents should use violence against their transgender children, to stop t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronaldo Bôscoli
Ronaldo Fernando Esquerdo Bôscoli, usually known as Ronaldo Bôscoli, or just Bôscoli (October 28, 1928 in Rio de Janeiro – November 18, 1994) was a Brazilian composer, songwriter, record producer and journalist. He was very active and significant in the creation and development of the Bossa nova Bossa nova () is a style of samba developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is mainly characterized by a "different beat" that altered the harmonies with the introduction of unconventional chords and an innovativ ... style in Brazil. References Brazilian songwriters Brazilian composers 1928 births 1994 deaths Musicians from Rio de Janeiro (city) Bossa nova singers Brazilian journalists Brazilian record producers 20th-century Brazilian male singers 20th-century Brazilian singers 20th-century journalists {{Brazil-composer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
