Michel Giacometti (8 January 1929,
Ajaccio, France – 24 November 1990,
Faro, Portugal
Faro ( , ) is a municipality, the southernmost city and capital of the district of the same name, in the Algarve region of southern Portugal. With an estimated population of 60,995 inhabitants in 2019 (with 39,733 inhabitants in the city proper, ...
) was a French ethnomusicologist from
Corsica who made important field recordings in Portugal.
Biography
Born in Ajaccio,
Corsica on 8 January 1929, Giacometti moved to Portugal in 1959. In the following 30 years, he dedicated his life to travelling across Portugal, studying and recording popular oral traditions which were being lost or forgotten.
He died in
Faro, Portugal
Faro ( , ) is a municipality, the southernmost city and capital of the district of the same name, in the Algarve region of southern Portugal. With an estimated population of 60,995 inhabitants in 2019 (with 39,733 inhabitants in the city proper, ...
on 24 November 1990.
Giacometti also built up a large collection of Portuguese musical instruments, much of which can now be found at the
Museum of Portuguese Music in
Estoril
Estoril () is a town in the Municipality of Cascais, Portugal, on the Portuguese Riviera. It is a tourist destination, with luxury hotels, beaches, and the Casino Estoril. It has been home to numerous royal families and celebrities, and has h ...
.
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French ethnomusicologists
People from Ajaccio
People from Corse-du-Sud
1929 births
1990 deaths
20th-century French musicologists
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