Júlio Medaglia (born 1938) is a Brazilian

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, and

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. Born in

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, he studied theory and conducting with

Hans-Joachim Koellreutter Hans-Joachim Koellreutter (2 September 1915 – 13 September 2005) was a Brazilian composer, teacher and musicologist. Koellreutter was born in Freiburg, Germany and lived in Brazil from 1937 onward, where he became one of the country's most infl ...

. He continued his studies at the Musikhochschule in

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, and privately with

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, and Sir John Barbirolli, with whom he worked as assistant conductor. After his return to

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in 1966, he established a solid reputation as a conductor, eventually working with all the major

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s in the country, in addition to launching his career as arranger and composer of music for

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and

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. In 1970, he worked with conductor Günther Schuller in the

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, and returned for another period of study in Germany, during which he produced several arrangements of Brazilian popular music and composed more than 100

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s for German

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movies. Returning to Brazil in 1974, since then he has worked with several musical and cultural institutions in the country, in addition to contributing the soundtrack for hundreds of Brazilian movies, plays, and television programs. Among the institutions that he has directed are the Teatro Municipal in

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, the Orquestra Sinfônica do Teatro Municipal in

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, and the Festival de Inverno de Campos do Jordão in

. He was the artistic adviser for the

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, the largest TV network in Brazil, and is the founder and director of the Amazonas Filarmônica, the resident orchestra at the

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. He also made the orchestration of Festivals of the MPB of

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. He wrote his " Belle Epoque en Sud-America", a Suite for

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for the Bläserquintett of the

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, who have recorded the work and play it on tour. The piece consists of El Porsche Negro, a ''

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''; Traumreise nach Attersee, subtitled '' Vals Paulista''; and Requinta Maluca, a ''

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''.

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