Eunice do Monte Lima Katunda (Catunda) (14 March 1915 – 3 August 1990) was a Brazilian pianist, music educator and composer.

Life

Katunda was born in

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and studied piano with

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and Marieta Lion, composition with Furio Franceschini,

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and

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. Beginning in 1944, she worked as a concert pianist and was a member of the Música Viva ensemble founded by Koellreutter. In 1948, together with students of Koellreutter, Katunda travels to Italy, where she will study conducting with

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. From this year, Eunice approaches the aesthetic socialist guidelines. In 1950 she began the study of Brazilian folk music with

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. Katunda taught musicology at the

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and composition at the Rio de Janeiro Conservatory. She died in

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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

References

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