Eleazar de Carvalho (28 June 1912,

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, Ceará – 12 September 1996,

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) was a Brazilian conductor and composer.

Biography

De Carvalho's parents were Manuel Afonso de Carvalho and Dalila Mendonça. He studied in the United States with Serge Koussevitzky at the Berkshire Music Center, and later became a conducting assistant to Koussevitzky, at the same time as Leonard Bernstein. He received a Ph.D. in music from

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in 1963. In Brazil, de Carvalho held principal conducting positions with the Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira of Rio de Janeiro, Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, Orquestra Sinfônica do Recife, Orquestra Sinfônica da Paraiba and also with the Orquestra Sinfônica de Porto Alegre. In the United States, his major post was as music director of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra (SLSO), from 1963 to 1968. During his St. Louis tenure, he was noted as a champion of contemporary music. He also conducted the first SLSO performances of Igor Stravinsky's ''

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'', and the ''

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'' of Hector Berlioz. De Carvalho taught at Hofstra University and the Juilliard School of Music. In 1987, he joined the music faculty of

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as a professor and as conductor-in-residence. He became emeritus at Yale in 1994. De Carvalho was a teacher to such conductors as

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, Charles Dutoit,

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, Seiji Ozawa,

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, and

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. De Carvalho was married to Jocy de Oliveira, and had a son, Eleazar de Carvalho Filho, now a renowned economist. Later, he remarried, to Sonia Muniz de Carvalho. They had a son, Sergei and a daughter, Claudia.

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* 1912 births 1996 deaths Brazilian conductors (music) Yale University faculty People from Ceará 20th-century conductors (music) {{Brazil-musician-stub