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Jaime Ovalle or Jayme Ovalle (5 August 1894 – 9 September 1955) was a Brazilian composer and poet. Ovalle was born in Belem, Brazil.Musicsack
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, he resided mostly in New York and London. He was one of the "Second Nationalist Generation" of Brazilian composers along with Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez (1897-1948) and
Walter Burle-Marx Walter Burle Marx (Born: São Paulo, Brazil, July 23, 1902; Died: Akron, USA, December 28, 1990) was a Brazilian pianist, conductor and composer. Born in São Paulo, he moved to Rio de Janeiro with his family in 1914, where he studied piano with ...
(1902-1990). He died in
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.


Works, editions and recordings

Ovalle's best known song is ''Azulão'', "bluebird", a canção to a text by Manuel Bandeira.Brazil: Volumes 22-24 American-Brazilian Association - 1948 - "It is not strange that a 20th Century composer from the north should have written a song about another bird, the azulao. Jaime Ovalle. born in Belem do Para, is the author of a Cancao by that name, one of the most haunting melodies in ..." It has been recorded by Conchita Badia,
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and many other sopranos. It has also been transposed to be sung by other voices - such as by
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. Other works: * ''
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'' (symphonic poem) * ''Legenda'' (for piano) * ''Modinha'' (canção, also to a text by Manuel Bandeira)


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* 1894 births 1955 deaths 20th-century composers 20th-century Brazilian poets 20th-century Brazilian male writers Brazilian composers Brazilian male poets {{Brazil-composer-stub